Inhaltsangabe
The external trade policies of the European Community are of great importance, both for its own people and for trading partners in the rest of the world. The Community is a major trading bloc; together with the United States, it plays a central part in shaping the rules governing international trade - for example in the difficult Uruguay Round of negotiations. There have been fears among trading partners that the completion of the Community's internal liberalisation of movements of goods, services and persons could lead to significant pressures to increase protection against imports from the outside world. Yet the processes by which the Community of twelve countries attempts to arrive at common positions on questions of trade policy have remained somewhat mysterious and there have been various conflicting attempts at explanation. There have been differing views on the relative influence of principles of policy and of various political, bureaucratic and private interests, at both Community and national levels.
This volume concentrates largely on policies affecting imports into the European Community of manufactured goods - policies including the negotiation of export restraint and orderly marketing agreements and the imposition of anti-dumping duties. The book is based on a number of case studies and also contains chapters on the formation of attitudes to trade policy in three of the largest countries of the Community, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
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