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A leading international economist looks at many of the key issues of trade policy now confronting the United States and the world in this timely book. Clear, informative, and witty, Jagdish Bhagwati provides the best available analysis of the protection debate and offers a prescription for reform in this turbulent area of trade policy. Bhagwati identifies new and powerful interests and ideologies that are likely to dominate the outcome of the debate. He argues that opposing tendencies can be identified in trade-related ideologies and in the national and sectional interests that lobby on trade policy in pluralistic societies. He offers the prognosis that the forces favoring freer trade are more robust and more fundamental than the forces of protectionism, and that pro trade forces are likely to triumph in the end but only if we adapt appropriately the institutions within which these ideologies and interests must function. Through an appealing combination of text, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati provides a masterly and entertaining look at the forces for and against protection. Protectionism is based on the inaugural series of Ohlin Lectures, which he delivered at the Stockholm School of Economics in October of 1987. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1284/thumbnail.jpg

The last two decades have seen significant changes in the pattern of protectionism, both in terms of the instruments used, and the countries affected. The papers in this volume address all aspects of global protectionism. As well as evaluating aspects of regional protectionism, the papers also address new issues such as trade in services and trade related investment measures. The contributors are drawn from Western Europe, North America, Japan and Latin America, reflecting the breadth of coverage of the volume.

Der Beitrag behandelt die Problematik regionaler Protektionsmaßnahmen zum Schutz primär der kleinen und mittleren lokalen Industriebetriebe in der VR China. Die neu errichteten Handelsbarrieren wenden sich gegen Importe aus anderen Regionen des Landes und ergänzen damit die bereits bestehenden Handelsschranken gegen den Export von Agrarprodukten und Rohstoffen. In diesem Kontext referiert der Beitrag die unterschiedlichen Positionen der innerchinesischen Ökonomie-Debatte über die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Handelsbarrieren als Hindernis für die Vereinheitlichung des Marktes und die Entwicklung einer Warenwirtschaft sowie als Ausdruck des Konflikts zwischen vertikaler und horizontaler Entscheidungskompetenz. Abschließend werden Maßnahmen der staatlichen Zentrale zur Reduzierung der Macht der lokalen Verwaltungen und zum Abbau der Handelsschranken angesprochen. (BIOst-Gsh)

Comments from a conference sponsored by the Center for a New Democracy, the Georgia World Congress Institute, and the World Trade Club of Atlanta, held in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 23, 1985. U.S. trade policy.