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Japan's high and increasing trade and current account surpluses have aroused in the other industrialized nations a … increasing imports from Japan. Japan's "unfair" conduct of its foreign trade is often cited as a reason for such a reaction. Is … this reproach justified? What can be done to avert the dangers to both Japan's foreign trade and the world economy caused …
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It is now acknowledged even by US officials that Japan's recent efforts to liberalize trade have been remarkable. Our … author, who has recently published a book on "Japan's Options for the 1980s", argues that the continuing EEC complaints about … Japan's behaviour as a trading partner are unjustified: Japan is simply being made a scapegoat for the EEC's own failures. …
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The article offers an analysis of the changes, during the past decade, in Japan’s foreign trade pattern. Special regard … raw materials and food in the country’s imports, has hit Japan particularly severely. …
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Since 1970 the world economy has gone through a series of grave crises which have stimulated an intensive discussion about the economic and political relations between industrialized and developing countries. As seen from the Federal Republic of Germany, the witnessed events have not only an...
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The union of the six states of the EEC has brought the largest trading power of the world into being in Europe. Its pesltion will be strengthened further by the accession of Great Britain and other states. The author, who is a Vice-President of the Commission of the European Communities,...
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The EC recently created a new instrument of trade policy to deter illicit trade practices. A major part of its purpose is to strengthen the Community’s authority in the area of trade policy and counter the spread of international protectionism within the Community. The following article...
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China's maxim of trusting in its own strength may well be the vital clue to an understanding of its foreign trade policy. In the fifties two-thirds of the Chinese foreign trade was conducted with Comecon states, above all the Soviet Union. After the break with the Kremlin Peking decided on a...
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Floating exchange rates affect two basic principles of GATT, namely: stability of trade policy conditions and reciprocity of trade concessions. What is the relevance of the changes to foreign trade? What possibilities for surmounting the new problems exist in the realm of external economic...
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In the fifties and sixties GATT was a motive power for worldwide trade liberalization which caused exports and imports to increase constantly at a higher rate than the production of goods. If this positive trend is to last, the course must be laid now for progressive removal of the trade barriers.
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