Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade: Can It Be Done? (Studies in International Economics)

Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade: Can It Be Done? (Studies in International Economics)
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306
ISBN
 
0472112473
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Pennsylvania State University Press
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Мировая экономика

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This book provides an up-to-date discussion of economic issues involved in analyzing regulations of product quality and performance in international trade. Among the issues addressed in this collection are restrictions on genetically modified foods and pesticide use and compatibility standards for computers. While such regulations may serve important goals, they may also interfere with international trade flow by raising the costs of compliance. This is of special concern to developing countries, which have found it difficult to meet the increasingly exacting regulations imposed by the United States and Europe. Keith E. Maskus and John S. Wilson gather prominent international trade specialists to ask whether the impacts of such regulations may be quantified systematically in order to inform the international policy debate. The essays included here cover all fronts of the debate over regulatory issues and trade conflicts. The discussion ranges from a review of how...

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