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Globalisation and international trade /

Blume, Allende

Globalisation and international trade / Allende Blume - viii, 320 pages ; 24 cm

economic&political bookfair2015

The development of the GATT WTO system --
A system for change --
Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization --
The general agreement on tariffs and trade --
The WTO agreements --
Six-part broad outline --
Tariffs : more bindings and closer to zero --
Agriculture : fairer markets for farmers --
Standards and safety --
Textiles : back in the mainstream --
Services : rules for growth and investment --
Intellectual property : protection and enforcement --
Anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards : contingencies, etc. --
Plurilaterals : of minority interest --
Trade policy reviews : ensuring transparency --
A unique contribution --
Strengthening developing countries in the WTO --
Opportunities, challenges and response --
Manifestations of weakness of developing countries --
Strategies of developing countries in the WTO --
The WTO decision-making process --
A glimpse of the tasks ahead --
The future course --
WTO and developing countires --
Problems with current U.S. policy --
Toward a new foreign policy --
Transparency, participation and legitimacy of the WTO --
Implications of the various agreements on developing countries --
The Doha agenda --
Implementation-related issues and concerns (par 12) --
Special and differential treatment --
Most favoured nation --
History --
Specific countries' policies --
Commercial treaty --
MFN treatment and its scope --
Most-favoured-nation principle --
MFN treatment in practice, 1776-1887 : conditional MFN within protectionism --
Free trade --
In literature --
History of free trade --
Economics of free trade --
Free trade debate --
Sociopolitical arguments in favour of free trade --
Criticisms of free trade --
Economic arguments against free trade --
Free trade undermines national security --
Arguments against free trade --
The argument for free trade --
Economic arguments for free trade --
Customs law --
Customary law and codification --
Import/export restrictions/prohibitions under customs law --
The customs tariff Act, 1975.

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World Trade Organization.
International trade.
Free trade.

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