This paper discusses the salient features of recent developments and outlines the prospects
for trade policy by highlighting the main issues that will determine the scope and timing of …

The rising trend toward protectionism in industrial countries, if unchecked, could critically
constrain the growth and development prospects of developing countries. Many developing …

1. This is a draft of a paper prepared for a conference on Textiles in the Uruguay Round,
held at The Institute of International Economic Studies, University of Stockholm, June 20-21 …

Estimates of import tariff equivalents (MTEs), 1981-84, of European and US voluntary export
restraints on Hong Kong are presented with estimates of rent incomes transferred. MTE rates …

Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall
societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book …

Rather than ease up, the MFA has been getting tougher on most developing country
exporters of textiles and clothing. Trade gains for new exporters (except for marginal …

JUST as all the world is against sin, so all the world is against non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to
international trade—well, at least against everybody else's sin and non-tariff barriers …

It has been shown that when voluntary export restraints are applied against a non‐Member
of a trade club, such as the EC and EFTA in Europe, the partner's exports will increase in …

This paper tests two hypotheses regarding the impact of the US Multifiber Arrangement
(MFA) restrictions on developing countries' exports of textiles and clothing to the United …

Zusammenfassung Ein neuer Ansatz zur SchÄtzung der Wirkungen von nichttarifÄren
Handelsschranken: Eine Anwendung auf die schwedische Textil-und Bekleidungsindustrie …