The Political Economy of Trade Conflicts: The Management of Trade Relations in the Us-Eu-Japan Triad

ISBN-13: 9783642457425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 157 str.

Franz Waldenberger

Opis

The papers of this volume were presented at an international conference on "The Political Economy of Trade Conflicts" in Tokyo in December 1993. The conference brought together practitioners with a long experience in trade negotiations, economists, and political scientists from Europe, Japan, and the US to exchange experiences, views, and arguments on various trade policy issues. The papers cover general aspects of EU trade policy, Japanese trade policy, EU-Japan and US-Japan relations; they address policy issues in specific conflict prone industries such as agriculture and high technology; they analyze the effects of antidumping policies in high technology industries and investigate the applicability of competition rules to international trade.

Spis treści

Introduction: Change, Conflict, and the Management of Trade Relations.- One Changes in National, Bilateral, and Regional Trade Policies.- Foreign and Domestic Determinants of Trade Policy.- EU Trade Policy: Special Interests versus Social Welfare.- EU Trade Policy vis-à-vis Japan: From Confrontation to Cooperation.- Japanese Trade Policy and Political System.- The US-Japan Structural Impediments Initiative: A Model for Reducing Trade Friction?.- US-Japanese Trade Relations: Challenges and Opportunities.- Two Special Policy Areas.- Japanese Farm Products Trade and Japanese Agricultural Policy.- Historical Background of Government Interventions in Agriculture and Possible Compromise in Farm Trade.- EU Agricultural Policy and International Trade Conflicts.- The Role of Government in High Tech Trade.- Bureaucratic R&D Policies: The Japanese Example.- An Analysis of Antidumping Policies in World Markets for High Technology Products.- National Policies in a Global Economy: The Case of Competition Policy.- Author Profiles.