Product Description: It is frequently asserted that agricultural liberalization by the United States, European Union, and other rich countries is the key to making the global trade negotiations launched in Doha, Qatar, in 2001 a "development round." Agricultural market liberalization is essential in achieving a successful Doha Round agreement because these are the most protected markets remaining in most rich countries...read more

Product Description: Protesters now routinely fill the streets when any large, formal meeting dealing with international economic issues takes place. They express concern about the potential social and environmental costs of globalization and want negotiators to address these issues in trade agreements and international organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Should the United States use retaliatory threats to open foreign markets or deter unfair trading practices? This study reexamines the arguments for and against reciprocity and retaliatory threats in light of actual experience since early 1975, especially the United States' aggressive use of the section 301, special 301, and super 301 provisions of US trade law, which gives the president broad authority to retaliate against "unjustifiable, unreasonable, or discriminatory" foreign trade practices...read more

Product Description: Even after the Uruguay Round, high tariffs in some sectors, quotas, and grey-area measures continue to impose high costs on consumers around the world. This study quantifies those costs in three major world markets - the European Community, Japan, and the United States...read more

Product Description: Book by Hufbauer, Gary Clyde, Schott, Jeffrey J., Elliott, Kimberly Ann