Trade between eastern and western industrial nations amounts to barely 4 p.c. of the total foreign trade of the latter, yet the interest in this part of world trade is disproportionally great. A number of many-sided studies have been devoted to East-West trade, and their results have given...

One of the many new publications dealing with the reform of the International trade system is the report of the Trade Policy Research Centre "Towards an Open World Economy". The following article analyses and criticises the main proposals of the report.

Talks began early in March in Geneva between the members of the extended EEC and their trading partners. These negotiations are being held in accordance with GATT Statute which insists that third countries must be compensated for any disadvantages they may suffer as a consequence of Great...

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.

The situation in the world copper markets has been of woridwide interest, not only due to nationalization efforts in several producing countries but also because of the growing desire of less developed countries (LDCs) to establish international commodity agreements similar to the CIPEC model.

The GATT Minister Conference to be held in Tokyo from September 12 to 14 will be the prelude to a new round of international negotiations about further liberalisation of world trade. Preparatory work of some six years thus comes to its conclusion.

The EEC Commission has to try to do a better selling job in the United States - not just in Washington and New York - to counter the trend to neo-isolationism. If representatives of the US-Government and the Common Market countries could find their way to round table again this might lead to an...