issues. This paper empirically studies 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 …

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 …

domestic importers and foreign exporters in determining preferential trade treatment. The author tests the predictions of the … model 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 determining the …

free trade. The entry of foreign capital may change the political game, increasing openness to international trade no … foreign firms into the host economy) or what its trade orientation (whether it enters the export or import-competing sector) …