Trade & Tariffs

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...

While traditionally powerful Western economies are treading water at best, beset by crises in banking, housing, and employment, industrial growth and economic development are exploding in China and India. The world's two most populous nations are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932728941Author Ganesh WignarajaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint East-West Center WashingtonPublisher East-West Center WashingtonWeight(grams) 150g

The proposal for an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade agreement is one of the oldest ideas for promoting mutually beneficial regional cooperation dating back to the mid-1960s. In more recent times, the idea has found new support for two main reasons: as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952514265Author Carlo Barbieri FilhoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Ambra University PressPublisher Ambra University PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512812695Author Irving B. KravisFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

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Of Africa's five main regions, East Africa (EA) has enjoyed the oldest links with India. These links which were build through trade, commerce and travel across the Indian Ocean date back to over two thousand years. Over the ensuing years these linkages...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640529984Author Jennifer A HillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Council on Foreign Relations PressPublisher Council on Foreign Relations...

Until the February 2004 gas crisis when Gazprom cut off all gas flows via Belarus, the issue of Belarus as a gas transit route was not addressed seriously despite this country's transiting around 20% of Russia's gas exports to Europe. The gas crisis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762877Author Kyle FerranaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839380877Author Keizer SozeFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Sabi Shepherd LtdPublisher Sabi Shepherd LtdWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839380471Author Keizer SozeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Sabi Shepherd LtdPublisher Sabi Shepherd LtdWeight(grams) 594g

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...

Free trade has become the mantra of development strategy for many countries in the world, especially those in the Asia Pacific. This book delves into the American side of the story. It is about how Singapore and the United States came to sign the...

The large market size and abundant resources of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), including a large, motivated and cheap workforce, a rich agricultural base, extensive timber and fisheries resources, considerable potential mineral resources, and vast...

This book explores new thinking and evidence about export diversification, and elaborates on policies to promote diversification. The papers in this book are written as short, policy focused chapters that digest often longer, more academic papers in an...

Conventional wisdom holds that free trade is economically beneficial to nations. But this does not prevent industries and interest groups from lobbying their governments for protection, which creates a fear of electoral backlash among politicians hoping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789287043580Author World Trade OrganzationFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint World Trade OrganizationPublisher World Trade Organization

Each Trade Policy Review consists of three parts: a report by the government under review, a report written independently by the WTO Secretariat, and the concluding remarks by the chair of the Trade Policy Review Body. A highlights section provides an...

Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically in...

The Annual Report 2017 provides an overview of WTO activities in 2016 and early 2017. The Report begins with a message from WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo, followed by a brief overview of 2015 and more in-depth accounts of WTO activities over the...

Globalization and America's Trade Agreements reviews the theoretical framework as well as provides a historic context of impact of the United States' complex trade agreements of the past 25 years. William Krist analyzes the issues in the recent rounds of...

While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866382373Author Dean Masahiro KawaiFormat PaperbackImprint East-West CenterPublisher East-West CenterWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876096819Author Gideon RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Council on Foreign RelationsPublisher Council on Foreign RelationsWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976443766Author Grant F SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Institute for ResearchPublisher Institute for ResearchWeight(grams) 367g

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The emergence of India and China as economic powers has shifted the global landscape and called into question the ability of the United States to compete. Advantage sorts out the challenges the United States faces and focuses on what drives innovation,...

Large companies continue to dominate international trade but, thanks to the Internet, the emergence of new business platforms, and the increasing openness of the global economy, many small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) now have the potential to...

Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of theEuropean Union (EU) and at the European level. The twentyseven country chapters at the core of this book chart the features of the neoliberal...

The negotiation of international trade agreements has become the issue of the moment. With Brexit, a change in administration in the United States, a fragile economic recovery in the Eurozone and China facing a slowdown in its growth, nothing is more...

India’s Economic Corridor Initiatives highlights key aspects of current discourses on India’s initiative of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and Chabahar, and their geo-economic significance.INSTC was founded by India, Russia, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324396Author Barbara KotschwarFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324020Author Gary Clyde HufbauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881322750Author Jeffrey SchottFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute...

China and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an improved...

When genetically engineered seeds were first deployed in theAmericas in the mid-1990s, the biotechnology industry and its partnersenvisaged a world in which their crops would be widely accepted as thefood of the future. Critics, however, raised a variety...

Richard Harris's now classic study on trade and industrial policy was written for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (also known as the Macdonald Commission). First published in 1985 when the Canadian economy...