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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words

doctoral diploma itself. Now I really understood why U.S. trade negotiators had complained for decades that the Japanese bureaucrats are masters of the invisible “non-tariff” barrier. Finally arriving at the Bank of Japan and looking over shelves of recent statistical publications, which the Bank of Japan helpfully provided in English, revealed

The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa

by Calestous Juma · 27 May 2017

a negotiations forum. The first phase of negotiations (lasting up to one year) covers trade in goods (including tariff liberalization, rules of origin, customs cooperation, non-tariff barriers, trade remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, and dispute settlement). The second phase (lasting up to five years) covers traderelated issues (including

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in commercial planting, trade, and emergency food assistance. COMESA, within its mandate of regional economic integration, recognizes the need to support member states in resolving non-tariff barriers that constrain markets and stifle the integration of food products into regional and global value chains, as an innovative strategy to promote market access to

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

by William J. Bernstein · 5 May 2009 · 565pp · 164,405 words

set off retaliation and trade war. Covering tens of thousands of items, the bill seemed designed to offend every last trading partner. It deployed many "non-tariff barriers" as well. For example, bottle corks constituted about half of Spanish exports to the United States; not only did the new law increase the tariffs

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outset, the world's farmers and textile manufacturers were able to exclude themselves from the GATT framework and maintain high tariffs and, even more importantly, non-tariff barriers such as quotas, restrictions, and subsidies on both domestic production and exports. The survival of protection for textiles and agricultural products has clearly cost the

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") Fanjul.56 Since the inception of GATT, virtually all nations have sidestepped its best efforts to lower barriers to agricultural trade-the rich nations with non-tariff barriers (mainly subsidies) and the poor ones with direct tar- iffs.57 After the September 11 attacks, the United States and Europe convened the Doha Round

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antagonize workers but also are unfair; American industry has in fact been much more adept than labor at getting protection, particularly in the form of non-tariff barriers: quotas, subsidies, antidumping legislation, and the like.35 Trade economists are slowly beginning to realize that they must stop being their own worst enemies. Dani

The European Union

by John Pinder and Simon Usherwood · 1 Jan 2001 · 193pp · 48,066 words

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eurosclerosis. The project was strongly backed by the more dynamic firms and the main business associations, especially since the Luxembourg ‘compromise’ had served to let non-tariff barriers to trade build up during the period. The successful abolition of tariffs on internal trade had demonstrated the value of a programme with a timetable

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produced a list of some 300 measures to be enacted by the end of 1992 in order to complete the single market by removing the non-tariff barriers. The Commissioner in charge of the project was Lord Cockfield, a former minister in the Thatcher government; and the programme was rapidly drafted in time

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de Gaulle and with the economies hard hit by recession, it could do little to stem the rising tide of subsidies. Along with the subsidies, non-tariff barriers proliferated in those years, becoming the main obstacle to trade between member states. One reason was technological progress, generating complex regulations differing from one state

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in the 1960s in mind, some business leaders and members of the Commission’s staff worked on the idea of a programme to remove the non-tariff barriers. When Delors became the Commission’s President in 1985, he fastened onto this idea as the only major initiative that would be supported by the

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1985. Whereas the programme for eliminating tariffs in the 1960s could be specified in the treaty in the form of percentage reductions, the removal of non-tariff barriers required a vast programme of Community legislation. Frontier formalities and discrimination resulting from standards and regulations, from public purchasing, and from anomalies in indirect taxation

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European Council and incorporated in the Single European Act, making completion of the programme by the end of 1992 a treaty obligation. The removal of non-tariff barriers was already implicit in the Rome Treaty, which prohibited ‘all measures having equivalent effect’ to import quotas. But because the practice of voting by unanimity

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declined. The Community played the leading part in the Uruguay Round, concluded in 1994. With tariffs on most manufactures already low, the focus moved to non-tariff barriers where the single market programme gave the Community a unique experience in techniques of liberalization. Its experience was also relevant to the replacement of the

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–7 neo-realism 6 net contributions 79–83 rebate of British net contribution 81–3 Netherlands 2, 14, 30 Nice Treaty 28–9, 37–8 non-tariff barriers 20 Norway 17–18 O open method of coordination 89 Opt-outs 25, 27, 52 border controls 27, 95–6 single currency 25, 64–5

The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

by Dani Rodrik · 23 Dec 2010 · 356pp · 103,944 words

trade controls.6 Consider the long list of areas liberalization barely touched. Agriculture was kept out of GATT negotiations and remained riddled with tariff and non-tariff barriers—most infamously in the form of variable import quotas aimed at stabilizing domestic prices at levels much higher than in exporting countries. Most services (insurance

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state trading monopolies were dismantled relatively early (starting in the late 1970s), what took their place was a complex and highly restrictive set of tariffs, non-tariff barriers, and licenses restricting imports. These were not substantially relaxed until the early 1990s. The Chinese leadership resisted the conventional advice in opening their economy because

9 Lessons in Brexit

by Ivan Rogers · 7 Feb 2019 · 40pp · 11,939 words

don’t want to be excessively unkind here, but politicians find goods trade and tariffs more graspable than services trade and the huge complexities of non-tariff barriers in services sectors. They rarely grasp the extent to which goods and services are bundled together and indissociable. They even more rarely grasp how incredibly

Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: The Facts About Britain's Bitter Divorce From Europe 2016

by Ian Dunt · 11 Apr 2017 · 158pp · 45,927 words

the single market we will need some sort of post-Brexit trading arrangement with the EU, or we will see the return of tariffs and non-tariff barriers to our largest market. People often assume that Article 50 covers administration, the law and trade. It actually only covers administration. The legal puzzle is

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makes trade work. It is something which presents one of the greatest dangers to Britain when it pulls away from Europe: non-tariff barriers. In recent years, as tariffs erode away, it is non-tariff barriers which preoccupy the thoughts of trade experts. Non-trade barriers are obstacles to trade outside of taxation. Some are insurmountable

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send employees all over the Continent without getting bogged down in endless bureaucracy over visas. They banished, seemingly forever, the costly irritations of tariffs and non-tariff barriers. There were and are complaints. Arguably the single market contributed to a sense that people had lost any power at work and were forced to

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recently negotiated between the EU and Canada. Securing this deal would allow Britain to trade with the EU without tariffs, country of origin checks and non-tariff barriers. In practical terms this is probably what ministers have in mind when they speak about access to the single market. These requirements make modern free

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the Uruguay Round of the WTO in 1993. The Doha Round started in 2001 and was abandoned in 2015 after disagreements over agriculture, industrial tariffs, non-tariff barriers and various other matters. Bilateral deals are considered the new alternative to massive agreements but they are also struggling. A US-EU trade deal, the

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backbencher John Redwood on tariffs, he replied: ‘It is not just tariff barriers. We also have to negotiate non-tariff barriers. It is… in both Europe’s interest and our interest to have tariff-free and non-tariff barrier based trade. That is where the jobs are.’ Two days later, during prime minister’s questions, May

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with whom we will be the junior partner. Economically, we may need to turn things around urgently after the sudden shock imposition of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Politically, the government will be desperate to prove that it can, in the prime minister’s words, ‘make a success’ of this venture. So the

The Making of Global Capitalism

by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words

to use the threat of these as a lever for the liberalization of foreign markets, including in relation to what were increasingly being identified as “non-tariff barriers” associated with other states’ domestic regulations.78 As an internal Treasury memo on export policy and exchange rates put it in 1975, “a policy of

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entailed in the 1980s and 1990s was the extension of this process of juridification to other states, above all through the US drive to overcome “non-tariff barriers.” The issue was clearly defined as early as 1971, in the Report to the President by the Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy (chaired

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the significant flow of US manufacturing trade that already occurred within American MNCs’ global operations, they were already pushing strongly for the adoption of a “non-tariff barriers” strategy. But such barriers were seen as especially affecting the export of financial services (as well as communications, accounting, management, consultancy, and other such services

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substantive, and politically sensitive, changes to their domestic legislation and economic practices.”11 This focus on changing the domestic laws of other states to eliminate non-tariff barriers also contributed to containing protectionist pressures within the US by channeling them into much broader demands for liberalizing foreign markets, while at the same time

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investment, were antithetical to what Harry Truman at the time had called the American “devotion to freedom of enterprise.” The shift to a focus on non-tariff barriers within states now set the stage for overcoming these problems. Although the stronger dispute-settlement procedures on non-tariff items negotiated in the GATT Tokyo

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words

jobs. So, tariffs are more than just an economic decision to impose a tax. There are often political motives behind their imposition. There are also non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to add to the mix. These are the other ways to be protectionist without imposing tariffs, such as through insisting on standards for certain

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MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words

bestowed a competitive advantage on exports as trade surpluses mounted: “For many years, China has pursued industrial policies and unfair trade practices—including dumping, discriminatory non-tariff barriers, forced technology transfer, overcapacity, and industrial subsidies—that champion Chinese firms and make it impossible for many United States firms to compete on a level