Trade & Tariffs

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The globalization of markets, and the prospect of a Single European Market by the end of 1992 in particular, have heightened European attention to the export challenge and has spawned an intriguing array of export assistance services designed to help...

An examination of the performance of U.S. manufacturing in historical and global perspective indicates that, contrary to recent fears, international trade competition has not induced the deindustrialization of America. During the 1970s the U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815752615Author Edward J. LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876093986Author Robert Z. LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Council on Foreign RelationsPublisher Council on Foreign Relations

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876094419Author Matthew J. SlaughterFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Council on Foreign RelationsPublisher Council on Foreign Relations

To access the additional resources mentioned in this book, Click Here. Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are not new, but their importance in global economics and politics has grown exponentially in the past two decades. At the same time, RTAs have become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740056Author Tarik M YousefFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Brookings Institution PressPublisher Brookings Institution Press

Oil Supply Crises: Cooperation and Discord in the West, by Vessela Chakarova, offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of consumer countries' policies and reactions to oil supply shortages. In addition to being a valuable source of information...

This is the Spanish language version of Toward Free Trade in America . In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution -in the way they trade with their neighbors. First, after decades of restrictive import...

Oil Supply Crises: Cooperation and Discord in the West, by Vessela Chakarova, offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of consumer countries' policies and reactions to oil supply shortages. In addition to being a valuable source of information...

Assumptions and institutions that we have taken for granted for fifty years are proving inadequate for the world now emerging. Moreover, mono-casual explanations of rapid global change do not work. Religious as well as economic dynamics, cultural as well...

Prying Open Fortress: The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration is unique in the field of migration studies since it traces the microeconomic motivations of the relevant economic actors who influence labor migration policy. The book updates the study of the...

Since 1995, the Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia and pinpointed for policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike the greatest reform challenges and reform...

The United States and Cuba share a complex, fractious, interconnected history. Before 1959, the United States was the island nation's largest trading partner. But in swift reaction to Cuba's communist revolution, the United States severed all economic...

American Supporters of free trade are on the defensive. Record U.S. trade deficits are fueling demands from industry, Congress, and the public for tariffs, import quotas, and other protectionist measures that could reverse America's long-standing...

China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great...

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In 2001, however, North America peaked. Trade slowed...

Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West - the United States in...

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from...

Americans have contradictory beliefs about how international trade affects the country as whole and specific communities. Yet notwithstanding the heat of political rhetoric, these beliefs are rarely mobilized into political action. Alexandra Guisinger...

This is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accords-called "side agreements"-that accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member states to uphold and enforce their labor and...

Free Trade and the Environment examines the impact economic integration has on the environment, using Mexico, which transformed itself from one of the most closed economies to one of the world's most open, as a case study. As new nations join the Free...

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is an agreement between two or more countries where the countries agree on certain terms and conditions that affect trade between them. There are more than 350 FTAs worldwide today. In the last two decades these agreements...

Why didn't the protectionist spiral of the 1920s reappear in the 1970s in light of similar economic and political realities? In Resisting Protectionism, Helen Milner analyzes the growth of international economic interdependence and its effects on trade...

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures...

The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both tariffs and nontariff barriers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815710196Author Richard BoltuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815721451Author Colin I. BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736714Author Marcelo OlarreagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815782957Author Alan O. SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

This book analyses the evolution of Sino-Russian oil and gas cooperation during the 1990s and 2000s. It describes how China has become a large importer of Russian oil, but not of its gas, and gives an explanation as to why this curious contrast has...

Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant...

The services sector -including financial services, telecommunications, transportation, tourism, and professional services -has become critical to the continued economic dynamism in the Americas. And the quality and competitiveness of this sector are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702986Author Lael BrainardFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815735533Author John F. HelliwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is...

This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile...

The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlighted the central part played by oil in the modern world. The fate of millions now depends on the...

China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan...