issues. The authors empirically study whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context …There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism …

model the role of domestic importers and foreign exporters in the determination of preferential trade treatment. The … predictions of the model are tested using data on preferential trade between the United States and Latin American countries. The … results suggest that Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in …

the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed … sectors the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … strong association between the average U.S. tariff on goods that benefit from U.S. export subsidies and lobbying spending …

The authors investigate the theoretical effects of lobbying and pressure group activities on both economic efficiency … and on equity. Looking at lobbying as a political activity that takes place alongside production, they find that lobbies …-rich), depending on each group's lobbying effectiveness. …

This paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin … foreign lobbying and tariff preferences. Results suggest that returns to Latin American and Caribbean exporters lobbying for …