Addresses the main issues and problems of the global trading system

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Contents

1. Introduction and Overview by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern     1

Part 1: Trade Barriers and Sectoral Liberalization

2. Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Preferential Trading Arrangements by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern     27

Commentary
Ronald W. Jones
Gary R. Saxonhouse

3. On the Importance and Extent of Rent Sharing in the Multi-Fibre Arrangement: Evidence from U.S.-Hong Kong Trade in Apparel by Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan     95

Commentary
T.N. Srinivasan
James A. Levinsohn

4. Reforming the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy: Who Stands to Gain? by Thomas W. Hertel, Mark Gehlar, and Robert A. McDougall     139

Commentary
Drusilla K. Brown
Stephen W. Salant

Part II. The GATT System

5. Do Rules Control Power? GATT Articles and Arrangements in the Uruguay Round by J. Michael Finger and Sumana Dhar     195

Commentary
J. David Richardson
Matthew D. Shapiro

6. The Trade Effects of Antidumping Investigations: Theory and Evidence by Robert W. Staiger and Frank A. Wolak     231

7. Quid Pro Quo Restraint and Spurious Injury: Subsidies and the Prospect of CDVs by Michael P. Leidy     263

Commentary
Robert E. Baldwin
Dan O'Brien

8. Optimal Pursuit of Safeguard Actions Over Time by Wolfgang Mayer     315

Commentary
Anne O. Krueger

9. GATT, Dispute Settlement, and Cooperation by Dan Kovenock and Marie Thursby     361

Commentary
Rodney Ludema
John G. Cross

Part III. New Issues

10. Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights: Issue and Exploratory Results by Keith E. Maskus and Denise Eby Konan     401

Commentary
Dani Rodrik
Richard C. Porter

11. TRIMS, Policy Change, and the Role of the GATT by John Mutti     455

Commentary
Gene M. Grossman
Joel Slemrod

12. Conceptual and Political Economy Issues in Liberalizing International Transactions in Services by Bernard M. Hoekman     501

Commentary
James R. Melvin

Part IV. Future of the GATT System

13. Fair Trade, Reciprocity and Harmonization: The New Challenge to the Theory and Policy of Free Trade by Jagdish Bhagwati     547

Commentary
John H. Jackson

Conference Participants     611
Author Index     615
Subject Index     621

Description

This title was formally part of the Studies in International Trade Policy Series, now called Studies in International Economics.