The European Community's Trade and Trade-Related Industrial Policies

ByMiranda Xafa, Joslin Landell-Mills, Roger P. Kronenberg

November 1, 1992

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Summary

This paper examines the objectives and instruments of trade policy in the European Community (EC) from 1987 until mid-1992. It reviews the Community’s institutional setting and policy environment as background to recent trends in EC trade policies and trading arrangements. A discussion of key issues and developments in the internal market program and its interactions with the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations is followed by a review of the main issues underlying trade disputes with third countries and trade-related industrial policies.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Exports, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Imports, International trade, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade barriers

Keywords: Baltics, Central America, Eastern Europe, EC complaint, EC country, EC export, EC market, EC member states, EC minister, EC policy, EC producer, EC rule, EC trade, EC transport minister, Exports, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Global, Imports, single market, Tariffs, Trade barriers, WP

Pages:
80
Volume:
1992
DOI:
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Issue:
094
Series:
Working Paper No. 1992/094
Stock No:
WPIEA0941992
ISBN:
9781451950687
ISSN:
1018-5941

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