This paper assesses the major developments in U.S. trade policies since the creation of the WTO in 1995. It is based in … large measure on the fourth biannual (1996) WTO Trade Policy Review of the United States and updated through 1997. The … discussion and assessments include in particular: the major U.S. multilateral trade-policy issues and activities centered in the …

Economic sanctions are not only a foreign policy tool but a form of trade policy. Like other kinds of trade policy …, mobilizes export interests against a trade sanctions policy. Congress's more hawkish preferences on both trade policy and human … leadership and perhaps against the will of the president. These variables color Sino-American trade relations today. …

To date, virtually all the equity market literature analyzing the consequences of trade policy changes has assessed … impact of trade negotiations. This paper attempts to work in both these neglected areas by assessing the impact on the value …

This paper is about the interactions between what is traditionally considered trade policy and a narrow but important … aspect of competition policy, namely merger policy. We focus on links between merger policies and trade liberalization … second, we argue that one should not expect to find any particular relationship between trade policy and merger policy. In …

resource depletion, such that sustainable growth will not occur in autarky under certain preferences, and is possible in trade … and free trade reveal that for very high or low world prices of the resource-based good, it is possible for the economy to … gain from trade. However if the price is intermediate, it will instead lose. …

much of the credit and blame for it, the World Trade Organization (WTO). It first defines globalization, which is just the …

This paper assesses the major developments in U.S. trade policies since the creation of the WTO in 1995. It is based in … large measure on the fourth biannual (1996) WTO Trade Policy Review of the United States and updated through 1997. The … discussion and assessments include in particular: the major U.S. multilat-eral trade-policy issues and activities centered in the …

Factor price equalization (FPE) is a central theme in trade theory, for which Dixit and Norman (1980) establish the …

The story line a recent trade frictions between the U.S. and Japan in the auto market goes as follow. Initially, there … was not much trade Japanese cars were made in Japan with mostly Japanese parts and the same was mostly true of North …

multilateral trade discipline within the newly written GATT/WTO framework. The unilateral trade policy measures have encompassed … multilateral aspect of India's WTO commitments regarding trade in goods and services, trade-related investment measures, and … the Uruguay Round (UR) trade liberalization and the liberalization that might be undertaken in a new WTO negotiating round …