Measuring the costs of protection in Europe : European commercial policy in the 2000s /

Measuring the costs of protection in Europe : European commercial policy in the 2000s /

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Author / Creator:Messerlin, Patrick A.
Imprint:Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, c2001.
Description:xv, 408 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Protectionism -- Europe -- Case studies.
Nontariff trade barriers -- Europe -- Case studies.
Tariff -- Europe -- Case studies.
Commercial policy.
Non-tariff trade barriers.
Protectionism.
Tariff.
European Economic Community countries -- Commercial policy -- Case studies.
European Union countries -- Commercial policy -- Case studies.
Europe.
Europe -- European Economic Community countries.
Europe -- European Union countries.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4497121
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ISBN:0881322733
Notes:"September 2001."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-387) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Political Stresses, Legal Constraints, and Old-Fashioned Economic Views
  • The High "Political Content" of EC Trade Policy
  • A Treaty-Based Trade Policy
  • The "Statist" Bias in the TEC
  • "Why Did the Dog Fail to Bark?"
  • I. Measuring the Level and Costs of EC Protection during the 1990s
  • 2. The Level and Evolution of EC Overall Protection in the 1990s
  • EC Tariff Protection Between 1990 and 2000
  • EC "Overall" Protection Between 1990 and 2000
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 3. The Costs of Protection in the European Community
  • Twenty-two Highly Protected EC Sectors: A Presentation
  • Costs of Protection: The Perfect-Competition Case
  • Costs of Protection: The Imperfect-Competition Case
  • Variations on Three Important Related Issues
  • II. EC Trade and Commercial Policy in the 2000s: Constraints and Dynamic Forces
  • 4. The Dynamics of EC Trade Policy
  • Agriculture: An Incredibly Slow Liberalization Process
  • Manufacturing: Old Peaks of Protection, New Instruments
  • Technical Regulations: Toward a "New" Protectionism?
  • Ongoing Deep Changes in the EC Economies?
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 5. Emerging EC Commercial Policy
  • The EC SMP in Services: In Need of a WTO Boost
  • Trade and Labor Issues
  • Competition Policy: Market Power and Subsidies
  • Public Procurement: Such a Big Deal?
  • TRIPS and Investment Issues
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 6. The EC Addiction to Discrimination: Toward a Slow Ebb?
  • EC Nonreciprocal Discrimination: ACP Conventions and the GSP Scheme
  • EC Reciprocal Discrimination: Central European, Mediterranean, and Balkan "Spaghetti Bowls"
  • EC Discriminatory Trade Policy in the 2000s: The End of the Road?
  • Regionalism versus Multilateralism: The Dispute Settlement Dimension
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 7. European Political Union and EC Commercial Policy
  • Europa in the Kingdom of Lilliput
  • Toward a "Federal" European Union?
  • Or Toward a Fully-Fledged--Political and Economic--European Community?
  • Impact of the Type of Political Union on EC Commercial Policy
  • Appendix A. Case Studies
  • Appendix B. EC Contingent Protection: Antidumping and Other Trade Instruments
  • Appendix C. Models
  • References
  • Index

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