Trading Blocs, U.s. Exports, And World Trade

Trading Blocs, U.s. Exports, And World Trade
Author: Penelope Hartland-thunberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2019-09-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000009262

This book points out that although the total trade volume of the blocs that involve less-developed countries (LDCs) has increased, this is due at least as much to a particular bloc-member's economic growth as it is a result of the trading bloc.

Trading Blocs

Trading Blocs
Author: Kerry A. Chase
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 047202289X

Global commerce is rapidly organizing around regional trading blocs in North America, Western Europe, Pacific Asia, and elsewhere--with potentially dangerous consequences for the world trading system. Professor Kerry Chase examines how domestic politics has driven the emergence of these trading blocs, arguing that businesses today are more favorably inclined to global trade liberalization than in the past because recent regional trading arrangements have created opportunities to restructure manufacturing more efficiently. Trading Blocs is the first book to systematically demonstrate the theoretical significance of economies of scale in domestic pressure for trading blocs, and thereby build on a growing research agenda in areas of political economy and domestic politics. "Chase has written a superb book that provides us with an innovative and compelling explanation for the development of trading blocs." --Vinod Aggarwal, Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley Kerry A. Chase is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.

Needed: a Constructive Foreign Trade Policy

Needed: a Constructive Foreign Trade Policy
Author: Stanley H. Ruttenberg & Associates
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1971
Genre: Balance of payments
ISBN:

Study of foreign trade difficulties and their repercussions on employment in the USA and the need for a constructive foreign trade policy - outlines the changing patterns of American trade and investments, examines the forces influencing American trade, such as the rise of multinational enterprise, the extension of non-tariff barriers, inflation, etc., and covers balance of payments deficits, etc. References and statistical tables.

Trade Blocs

Trade Blocs
Author: Richard L. Bernal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1997
Genre: International economic integration
ISBN:

The Political Importance of Regional Trading Blocs

The Political Importance of Regional Trading Blocs
Author: Bart Kerremans
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 135173220X

This title was first published in 2000. This text addresses concerns about regional trade agreements. From a variety of political and economic angles, it explains the emergence of trade blocs, their internal policies and politics, and their effects on global trade. It does not provide sequential descriptions and analyses of each of the world's major trading blocs. The focus here is on a number of causal factors that help explain the emergence of trading blocs and the development of their relations to and effects on the multilateral trading system. In each chapter, attempts have been made to draw theoretical and case-based generalizations that may apply to other trade blocs than the used in the empirical analyses.

Strategic Planning and Multinational Trading Blocs

Strategic Planning and Multinational Trading Blocs
Author: Nejdet Delener
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313004366

Cross-border investments and cooperative business ventures are driving the global economy on an unprecedented scale. Business professionals and policy makers must be aware of the potential of trading blocs as a competitive weapon given the rising importance of multinational trade. The coming years promise to be the era of the Trade Pact Wars as Canada's recently announced trade talks with Chile, Germany's push for closer trans-Atlantic ties with the United States, and ASEAN efforts to promote intraregional trade all test the fledgling World Trade Organization in its role as the watchdog of global trade. Delener examines the rationale for international trading blocs and free trade with a focus on the implications for strategic planning of firms and national industry sectors. He looks at the development and conditions of the major existing regional trading blocs and discusses issues that will impact those who do business within them. NAFTA, the European Union, South American trading blocs, and efforts in Asia and Africa are all examined in detail. Strategic planning, anti-dumping issues, and global standards are also considered. The book provides professionals, researchers, and students with a firm grasp of the issues of central importance to strategic planning in global corporations and multinational trading blocs. Those who fail to grasp the significance of multinational trading blocs will face tough times while those who plan for it will see their nations and businesses thrive and prosper.

America's Trade Follies

America's Trade Follies
Author: Bernard K. Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134571739

America's Trade Follies controversially argues that the global political economy is hardening into regional blocs, in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific, organized around a powerful economic base and suspicious of each other. Bernard K. Gordon's masterful analysis shows that this division threatens American prosperity by limiting US access to the world's richest and largest markets, and endangers US security by dividing the globe along economic and political lines. Provocative, original and stimulating this book is essential reading for all those interested in American politics, trade and international political economy.

American Trade Policy

American Trade Policy
Author: Anne O. Krueger
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this monograph Anne O. Krueger demonstrates the increasing reliance on bilateral and regional trading arrangements and shows the dangers of departures from multilateralism. Using examples from trading relationships with individual countries (especially Japan and Korea), she shows how the presence of third countries not covered by agreements, market forces, and unanticipated technological and economic events undermine the intended effects of many bilateral arrangements. Ms. Krueger analyzes the North American Free Trade Agreement, and its prospective enlargement to a Western Hemisphere free trade agreement, in light of its impact on the multilateral trading system. While such arrangements can be "GATT plus", they can also be GATT substitutes. The author outlines the ways in which the presence of regional arrangements can detract from the open multilateral trading system, especially at a time when the new World Trade Organization should be the focal point of energy and attention. Ms. Krueger concludes by summarizing the failures of bilateral approaches to achieving their objectives and calling for a renewed commitment to the open multilateral trading system.