this chapter examines rules of origin which is seen as an increasing significant impediment to trade.

In the present study we conduct constant market share analysis of the imports and apparent consumption of the manufacturing industries of four major economies-Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the USA. Additionally, the current study disaggregates import penetration in manufacturing, including sectors...

Substantial variations in landowner's share under sharecropping arrangements are documented. Partial relationships between landowner's share and land quality and between landowner's share and physiological population density are explained by extensions of the competitive theory of share tenancy....

this chapter argues that a threat tothe future development of the textile and clothing industries within the Asia-Pacific region exists in the proliferation of preferential trade agreements involving major industrial markets and developing countries.