The sudden shock of the fivefold increase of the price of oil in the autumn of 1973 has been reflected since in the world trade by structural changes in its composition by categories of goods and its regional distribution. How has the international trade coped with this shock, and which more...

The current problems of international trade can certainly not be solved by resorting to the arsenal of national trade policies. World-wide economic losses would be the inevitable result. Therefore the first set of tripartite talks between the "major trading powers", the USA, the EC and Japan,...

International trade data are of great importance to planners in the Third World as well as to academic researchers. They are often considered to be the best economic series available. Just how accurate are these data really?