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This book describes in detail the negotiation of the 1982 U.S.-E.C. Steel Trade Arrangements, providing all the necessary background information including the first authoritative post-mortem of the Steel Trigger Price Mechanism. Levine shows how the 1982 Arrangements evolved from an interplay of U.S. laws defining and enforcing "fair" trade, economic and industrial developments, U.S. and European domestic politics, international relations, and simple economic self-interest. The author contends that the U.S. steel industry was able to use leverage created by a judicialized system of trade dispute settlement to force the U.S. Government to accept a political system of import protection that it would otherwise have refused. ... Read more

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This insider really knows the inside ( of U.S. steel trade)
Mr. Levine has still written the definitive text about the US- EC Steel trade negotiations. As a frequent observer of the Commerce Department during the early 1980s, I know that his keen sense of people and politics served him well in this work. It remains in a prominent place on my own bookshelf. I agree with the review by Sam from Pasadena. If you are interested in US government, Commerce Dept, trade policy, or have a mother, you should buy this book.

Strongly recommended
I have nothing but positive things to say about the author of this book -- he's my favorite person who has ever worked in the State Department, and this is undoubtedly the best book he's ever written. Also, the dedication is heart-warming.

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Today, many international free trade agreements (FTAs) are broader than they have ever been before and often affect numerous public policy sectors, such as education, the environment and public health. Yet when it comes to the actual negotiation of FTAs, however, domestic decision-making processes are often biased in favour of commercial objectives and fail to appropriately include the diverse political sectors that are affected by the respective agreements. This, naturally, influences the process and outcome of international negotiations and public policy objectives are often compromised.

Looking in detail at US-Peru and US-Colombia FTA negotiations and more specifically at the issues surrounding intellectual property rights, this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of domestic politics in understanding the nature and outcome of international negotiations, in particular as they relate to international economic diplomacy. The book draws on a substantial amount of empirical research including interviews with individuals in Peru, Colombia and the US who were directly or indirectly involved in the negotiation process, focusing on the conflict between giving way to the pressure from the USA to increase intellectual property rights on the one hand, and maintaining public health safeguards on the other. The book demonstrates how the respective structural and institutional characteristics in Peru, Columbia and the USA affected the process and outcome of the respective FTA negotiations, exploring issues such as domestic policy-structures, the centrality of government and the influence of interest groups and industry’s lobbying. The book goes on to consider whether including public policy objectives in bilateral trade negotiations can ever be successful given the economic imperatives that provide the basis of such negotiations, or whether such objectives should instead be pursued through multilateral fora such as the World Health Organization.

This book will be of interest to academics as well as practitioners in international economic law intellectual property, political economy) and international relations, comparative politics and government.

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of International Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We examine the extent to which product differentiation affects duration of US import trade relationships. The results are consistent with a matching model of trade formation. Using highly disaggregated product level data we estimate the hazard rate is at least 23% higher for homogeneous goods than for differentiated products. The results are not only highly robust but are often strengthened under alternative specifications. As the smallest relationships are dropped, differences across product types increase. Controlling for potential measurement errors also results in larger differences across product types. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1197 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: TURKEY: Project feasibility study for proposed $50,000,000 geothermal power plant, US TRADE & DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, STONE & WEBSTER INTERNATIONAL [USA] - Order #: 023305.
Publication: WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East (Newsletter)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Worldwide Projects, Inc.
Volume: 14Issue: 02

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The goal of this Video Leadership SeminarTM is to provide lawyers with critical information on international trade and investment law. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 60 minutes of live video with Joseph Dennin of McKenna Long & Aldridge sharing his knowledge on specific winning legal strategies for success when dealing with international trade and investment laws. The Video Leadership SeminarTM provides essential information for handling such situations, including the steps to take and what to avoid, as well as an overall framework and timeline for how to proceed.

Topics covered in the Video Leadership SeminarTM include:

Recent changes in international trade
National security issues
The biggest mistakes and how to avoid making them
Recent changes in legislation
A checklist to avoid a firestorm
The evolution of CFUIS
Roles and motivations of each party
A seasoned attorney's strategy for procuring and enforcing patents
Case Studies of specific situations and what you can learn from them

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In this volume, distinguished economists and trade policymakers address the US initiatives to enter into free trade negotiations with a broad range of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the Western Hemisphere, and Africa. The sheer number of these initiatives is unprecedented and has provoked major policy questions concerning US interests in the negotiations, the setting of priorities among the many contenders for concluding free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States, the objectives of those trading partners, and the implications that these agreements could have for broader initiatives such as the Doha Round in the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The volume includes a technical appendix with results of GTAP and gravity model simulations of the trade and welfare effects of the prospective agreements. ... Read more

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A welcome addition to economics shelves in public libraries
Expertly compiled and edited by Jeffrey Schott (academician, economist, and Senior Fellow at the Institue for International Economics), Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies And Priorities is an anthology of essays by learned authors concerning American initiatives to enter free trade negotiations with nations around the world, from the Asia-Pacific region to the western hemisphere to Afica. Discussing major policy questions, the importance of setting priorities and objectives, the conceptual case for FTAs, discussions of specific agreements being pursued (including ones for Australia, Central America, Morocco, and the Southern African Customs Union) pack this scholarly and heavily researched compendium. A technical appendix with results of simulations of the trade and welfare effects of prospective agreements rounds out Free Trade Agreements, a welcome addition to economics shelves in public libraries, educational libraries and private collections.
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Since its accession to the WTO, China has become the United Statesthird-largest trading partner and the sixth-largest market for US exports. Between 2000 and 2005, US imports from China rose from $100 billion to $243 billion, while US exports to China climbed from $16 billion to $42 billion. As China continues its rise as a great power, The United States Congress and the administration wrestle with one another over the proper tactics and strategies to shape US-China economic relations. What major disputes now, and looming on the horizon, will shape future US-China relations; and what can be done to solve, or at the very least to manage, them? This important new book examines these issues and offers suggestions for both sides. ... Read more

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August 15, 2001, TOKYO (AP)The dollar slipped against the yen, extending its downward trend in New York overnight. The greenback has continued to weaken following the International Monetary Fund's warning on Tuesday that the U.S. current-account deficit -- the broadest measure of trade -- could destabilize the currency.

This startling news item should come as no surprise to anyone who has read Catherine Mann's 1999 book, Is the U.S. Trade Deficit Sustainable?in which she warned that the deficit would be sustainable for only a few years if the dollar did not begin its own modest decline.Indeed, the questions she raised in the following book description are just as poignant today as they were in 1999:

The United States trade deficit has hit record levels and continues to rise.Is a chronic and widening deficit sustainable or will the dollar crash, perhaps taking the economy with it?If the problem was one of "twin deficits," why has the external deficit continued to worsen even as the budget deficit narrowed to zero?If US companies are so intensely competitive, why does the external deficit persist?Does the external deficit represent protectionism abroad; will it lead to protectionism at home?

This study seeks to answer these perennial questions about the trade deficit. Each chapter presents simple analytical frameworks as a basis for concise, succinct, and clear statements on each major issue. The last section of the book provides an outlook for the deficit and suggests alternative policy courses for dealing with it. ... Read more

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Interesting book!
EEUU trade deficit is on the news and it worry most economist because it might render a future financial crisis. In order to understand more about this issue, I read this short book which helped me to understand the several factors involve in the EEUU trade. At the present time, EEUU trade deficit is big, but narrow it, perhaps with the aid of a dollar depreciated against the euro. Interesting book!

Excellent Reading Material!
Being someone who is not an economist, but having interest in topics such as the Current Account deficit, the Balance of Trade, the Trade deficit, The Capital Account surplus, etc... I had always wanted an explanationabout these relevant issues. So when I read this book, I was quite amazedat how lucid and clear the information is for people like me (Engineers whodon't want to go back to college to get an Economics degree). I highlyrecommend it for those who always wanted as non-biased an answer aspossible on what EXACTLY does our Trade Deficit mean to us and futureAmerican generations, without the bias others like Pat Buchanan (aprotectionist), or the CATO institute (free traders all-the-way) wouldgive. ... Read more

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The United States and Pakistan established diplomatic relations in 1947, shortly after Pakistan gained its independence. Since then, relations have alternated between episodes of close partnership and sharp friction reflecting the ups and downs of global and regional geopolitics. The tides of foreign policy have correspondingly affected trade and investment. Post-September 11th diplomacy has now created a strong relationship between Pakistan and the United States. Would a free trade agreement between these two counties benefit them? What type of economic benefits could be expected? This new book looks at this question and many others and concludes that a free trade agreement between the United States and Pakistan would benefit both countries. ... Read more

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Morocco continues to struggle with unemployment, faltering levels of competitiveness, and a lack of diversity in its economy. And, despite efforts to improve trade both at the border and within the country itself, shortcomings of the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA) weaken its intended economic results. What missteps have been made and how should they be renegotiated in the future? Where has the implementation failed and what additional steps should the US and European Union take in order to boost Moroccan industries? Morocco-US Free Trade Agreement: An Assessment makes recommendations to capitalize upon underexploited elements of the agreements and ultimately offers a promising direction for new provisions. Precise and thorough, the volume first references other countries experiences with a US FTA as a basis for retooling aspects of the Moroccan agreement. The study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes the results of the US-Morocco FTA, which began in 2006, compared with the US FTAs with Chile and Jordan. The authors use a standard, gravity-model analysis of US two-way trade to determine if trade falls short of or exceeds predicted levels. Notably, this study looks at why Chile and Jordan perceived respective US FTAs as a boon to the economy and assesses how these success stories are applicable to Morocco's unique position. Finally, the study focuses on sectors in which the agreement has proven advantageous, namely agriculture and textile, and examines other sectors in which the outcome is still unclear: services and intellectual property. Based upon the substantive framework of these case studies, the authors suggest reforms that the Moroccan government should use to leverage a successful US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement. ... Read more

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What are the links between slow US real wage growth, increased earnings inequality and trade? Lawrence deconstructs the gap between real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth over the past quarter-century and estimates how much of the gap is due to measurement issues and how much higher these wages might have been if the distribution of income been kept constant.He also argues that while increased trade with developing countries may have played some part in causing greater wage inequality in the 1980s, surprisingly, over the past decade the impact has been too small to show up in aggregate wage data on inequality. Increases in income inequality and slow real wage growth since 2000 reflect strong profit growth. Increases in inequality over the past decade also have resulted from dramatic income gains for the top one percent of wage earners. ... Read more

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Copyright is of considerable importance in today's globalinformation society, and the rapid pace of technological developmentshas posed a significant challenge for copyright policymakers andlegislators. The problems international, regional and national bodiesare currently grappling with include:+ identifying and defining the range of rights to cover all theimportant economic methods of exploiting copyright works; + enforcing these rights at a time when all such works have becomecapable of being digitised, transmitted instantaneously and, with orwithout authority, reproduced flawlessly and at minimal cost. Copyright in a Global Information Society examines the scope ofauthors' rights in relation to the exploitation of their works bybroadcasting, whether terrestrial or by satellite, cabling or overcomputer networks, in three important jurisdictions and under relevantinternational conventions. The analysis traces the gradual expansionof the various exclusive rights granted by copyright law in responseto technological developments and puts them in their modern context,focusing on the overarching right of public performance orcommunication. The author argues that the advent of moderntechnologies, which recognise no national boundaries, necessitate theadoption of an internationally harmonised concept of 'communication tothe public' as the primary right applicable to the dissemination ofcopyright works in non-material form. This work is a valuable contribution to the study and understanding ofcopyright law and will be of great interest to academic and practisinglawyers, and to those involved in shaping modern copyright policy. ... Read more