The Central-American Common Market (Mercado Común Centroamericano - MCC) was established in 1960 and its members are: Costa Rica, EI Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Purpose of this article is meant to be a reflection on these countries' development of their external trade during...

The growing importance of Japan on the world market has brought with it changes in the international division of labour and a shift in the focus of the expansion in world trade away from the EC and the USA. What factors determine the shares of the EC, the USA and Japan in international trade?...

The 11th session of the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the second Ministerial Conference of that Organisation took place in Accra from February 19 to 23, 1973. The Commission - a regional organisation of the United Nations - has 41 independent African states as members.

President Nixon's intention to visit Peking is attracting tremendous interest all over the world. The present article discusses past developments of US/Chinese trade and its possibilities in the future.

The danger of serious disagreements on the agricultural question and a trade war developing between the EC and the USA may never have been as great as it is today: on the one hand, the EC has less and less leeway for its foreign trade policy because the problems in financing its agricultural...

The Middle East has become the largest external supplier of imports to the European Community, and is also the EC's largest export market. Rising oll prices have not only affected the value of EC imports from the Middle East, but have also ultimately determined the ability of the Middle Eastern...

Early this year the US Administration made reference to "a marked improvement in the relations between the EC and the USA over the period of the last three years" - an astonishing statement in the light of the mounting non-tariff obstacles to trade between the EC and the USA.