Handbook on International Trade Policy (Elgar Original Reference)

COPYRIGHT......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Contributors......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 10
Preface......Page 15
1 Introduction to trade policy......Page 17
PART I EVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT......Page 25
2 Theory and practice in the conduct of trade policy......Page 27
3 History of economic thought on trade policy......Page 35
4 Modern history of trade policy......Page 45
5 Modeling approaches to the analysis of trade policy: computable general equilibrium and gravity models......Page 60
PART II TRADE AGREEMENTS......Page 71
6 Why are there trade agreements?......Page 73
7 Overview of trade agreements: the multilateral system......Page 87
8 Overview of trade agreements: regional trade agreements......Page 98
9 The breadth of integration arising from trade agreements......Page 110
10 Trade agreements: depth of integration......Page 122
11 Trade creation and trade diversion: analyzing the impact of regional trade agreements......Page 136
12 Rules of origin and tariff circumvention......Page 147
13 Economies of scale, imperfect competition and market size......Page 157
14 Trade in services......Page 166
15 Trade-related intellectual property rights, trade flows and national welfare......Page 179
PART III TRADE POLICY INSTRUMENTS......Page 191
16 Trade distortion: border measures versus domestic support......Page 193
17 Tariffs: national welfare and distributional issues......Page 203
18 Trade and domestic policy: conduct and modeling......Page 217
19 Tariffication: theoretical justification and problems of implementation......Page 231
20 Tariff spikes and tariff escalation......Page 238
21 Export taxes: how they work and why they are used......Page 253
22 Import quotas and voluntary export restraints......Page 264
23 Tariff rate quotas......Page 274
24 Quota administration......Page 283
25 Capitalization of trade policy benefits......Page 292
26 Direct and indirect export subsidies......Page 298
27 Production subsidies......Page 308
28 Strategic export subsidies......Page 318
29 Government procurement......Page 327
30 State trading agencies......Page 336
31 Administrative measures: restraining bureaucracy from inhibiting trade......Page 346
PART IV CONTINGENCY AND SAFEGUARD METHODS......Page 353
32 Antidumping: theory and practice, rationales and calculation methods......Page 355
33 Unfair subsidies and countervailing duties......Page 363
34 Administrative procedures, the distribution of costs and benefits, and incentives in anti-dumping cases......Page 376
35 Safeguard measures and impediments to labour mobility......Page 384
PART V COORDINATING TRADE POLICY WITH DOMESTIC POLICY......Page 397
36 Sanitary and phytosanitary issues......Page 399
37 Technical barriers to trade......Page 410
38 Ethical issues in trade......Page 420
39 Trade and the environment: what do we know?......Page 430
40 Trade agreements and Multilateral Environmental Agreements......Page 443
PART VI TRADE POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 455
41 Import substitution industrialization......Page 457
42 Export promotion policies......Page 466
43 The generalized system of preferences and special and differential treatment for developing countries in the GATT and WTO......Page 473
44 International commodity agreements......Page 486
45 International trade and wages......Page 498
PART VII TRADE POLICY: ENFORCEMENT AND COERCION......Page 511
46 Dispute settlement, compensation and retaliation under the WTO......Page 513
47 Economic sanctions for foreign policy purposes: a survey of the twentieth century......Page 525
48 Trade related aspects of intellectual property: enforcement issues......Page 536
Index......Page 543