U.S. Trade Policy

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9781568025223 | 156802522X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2001

Buy New

Print on Demand: 2-4 Weeks. This item cannot be cancelled or returned.

$89.31
eBook

Available Instantly

Online: 180 Days

Downloadable: 180 Days

$55.13

What was the &BAD:"battle in Seattle&BAD:" over trade all about? You may know...but do your students? With John Rothgeb's concise text U.S. Trade Policy: Balancing Economic Dreams and Political Realities, your students will learn about international trade, the political tensions it rouses, and its historical roots. Rothgeb carefully traces the forces that affect U.S. trade policy's development and implementation, including: the strategic and competitive international arena policymakers' views on the value of trade the influence of special interest groups the impact of institutional rivalries Supplement your foreign and economic policy course with a balanced discussion of the enormous changes spurred by the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the Bretton Woods system, and the GATT, to the controversy surrounding current trade relations withteh European Union and China.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Controlling U.S. Trade Policy	p. 3
Objectives of this Book	p. 5
Protection, Free Trade, and Congress	p. 7
Nationalists and the American System	p. 7
The Free Trade Alternative	p. 11
The Basic Economic Argument	p. 11
The United States and Free Trade	p. 14
The Realist View	p. 17
Congress and Trade	p. 19
Chapter Summary	p. 23
Notes	p. 24
From Protection to Reciprocal Trade	p. 27
Commercial Isolation	p. 30
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff	p. 30
The Farm Problem and the Split Among Democrats	p. 33
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff	p. 35
Reciprocal Trade	p. 39
The 1932 Election and Its Aftermath	p. 40
The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act	p. 43
Implementing the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act	p. 45
Chapter Summary	p. 49
Notes	p. 50
From Neutrality to Bretton Woods and the GATT	p. 54
Trade and War	p. 57
The Neutrality Laws	p. 57
Lend-Lease Act	p. 60
Freezing Assets	p. 62
Transforming the World Trading System	p. 63
Making Preparations	p. 64
Congressional and British Obstacles	p. 65
The Bretton Woods Agreements	p. 68
Trade Negotiations: Slow Going and Tough Bargaining	p. 72
The International Trade Organization and the GATT	p. 74
Chapter Summary	p. 77
Notes	p. 79
Cold War Trade: Protection from Imports and from Communism	p. 82
The Communist Threat	p. 84
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan	p. 85
Economic and Political Containment	p. 88
Congressional Trade Restrictions and the Korean War	p. 91
Eisenhower's New Look in Trade	p. 93
Protection from Imports	p. 94
Protection from Unfair Trade	p. 96
Protection from Fair Trade	p. 98
The Cold War and Freer Trade	p. 100
Trade and National Security	p. 100
The Randall Commission and Renewing Reciprocal Trade	p. 103
Trouble with Textiles	p. 104
Chapter Summary	p. 107
Notes	p. 108
The Kennedy and Tokyo Rounds of the GATT	p. 112
The Kennedy Round of the GATT	p. 114
The Issues	p. 115
The Trade Expansion Act of 1962	p. 117
The Negotiations	p. 120
The Reaction	p. 124
The Tokyo Round	p. 125
Nixon's Trade Decisions	p. 126
The Trade Act of 1974	p. 129
The Tokyo Round	p. 133
The Trade Agreements Act of 1979	p. 136
Chapter Summary	p. 138
Notes	p. 139
Oil and Turmoil	p. 143
Trade in Oil	p. 145
Quotas and National Security	p. 146
The Tables Turn	p. 147
The Oil Weapon	p. 148
The American Response	p. 150
Confusion on the Home Front	p. 153
The Moral Equivalent of War	p. 156
Revolution in Iran	p. 157
The Windfall Profits Tax	p. 159
Rolling Back Energy Prices	p. 160
The Automobile Industry	p. 161
America's Love Affair with Big Cars	p. 162
The Foreign Challenge	p. 163
Seeking Relief	p. 165
The Escape Clause Case	p. 166
Back to Congress	p. 168
Renewals and Domestic Content	p. 169
Chapter Summary	p. 171
Notes	p. 173
From the Cold War to the WTO and NAFTA	p. 177
East-West Trade	p. 179
The Grain Embargo	p. 179
The Pipeline Sanctions	p. 180
The Japanese Challenge	p. 183
The Japanese Difference	p. 183
Market Opening: Round One	p. 185
Market Opening: Semiconductors	p. 187
The Structural Impediments Initiative	p. 190
The Uruguay Round of the GATT	p. 193
Getting Started	p. 194
The Negotiations	p. 195
The Final Negotiations	p. 197
The North American Free Trade Agreement	p. 199
The U.S.-Canada Negotiations	p. 200
The Three-Way Talks	p. 202
Congressional Approval	p. 205
Chapter Summary	p. 207
Notes	p. 209
Approaching a New Century of Trade	p. 213
Japan	p. 215
The Framework Talks	p. 215
The Enhanced Initiative	p. 217
The European Union	p. 219
Beef Hormones	p. 219
Bananas	p. 221
China	p. 223
Human Rights	p. 225
Chinese Trade Barriers	p. 226
U.S.-China WTO Negotiations	p. 229
The Final Agreement	p. 232
The United States and the WTO	p. 234
Dispute Settlement	p. 234
A New Round of Negotiations	p. 236
Regional Trade	p. 238
Asia	p. 238
Expanding NAFTA	p. 241
Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 242
Chapter Summary	p. 244
Notes	p. 246
Glossary	p. 251
Further Reading	p. 258
Index	p. 261
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

U.S. Trade Policy

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials