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The European Payments Union is generally perceived as having been a critical step toward the reconstruction of free international trade and payments following World War II. The success with which the countries of what became the European Community restored economic stability and rebuilt their international transactions in the 1950s led many to recommend an EPU-like arrangement for the independent states of the former Soviet Union. This book presents an historical assessment of post-World War II Western European experience for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It identifies critical problems with attempting to apply the EPU model to those parts of the world today. ... Read more

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The papers of this volume were presented at an international conference on "The Political Economy of Trade Conflicts" in Tokyo in December 1993. The conference brought together practitioners with a long experience in trade negotiations, economists, and political scientists from Europe, Japan, and the US to exchange experiences, views, and arguments on various trade policy issues.
The papers cover general aspects of EU trade policy, Japanese trade policy, EU-Japan and US-Japan relations; they address policy issues in specific conflict prone industries such as agriculture and high technology; they analyze the effects of antidumping policies in high technology industries and investigate the applicability of competition rules to international trade. ... Read more

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One of the major problems facing the European Union today is that of high unemployment, often seen as a result of the increasingly globalized world economy. This book provides the first comprehensive set of studies on the impact of trade with developing countries on the European labor market. ... Read more

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The U.S. goods trade deficit with European Union was $116.6 billion in 2006, a decrease of $5.7 billion from $122.3 billion in 2005. U.S. goods exports in 2006 were $214.0 billion, up 14.8 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from European Union were $330.6 billion, up 7.1 percent. European Union countries, together, rank second behind Canada as an export market for the United States in 2006. U.S. exports of private commercial services (i.e. excluding military and government) to the European Union were $127.8 billion in 2005 (latest data available), and U.S. imports were $105.9 million.Sales of services in the European Union by majority U.S.-owned affiliates were $249.1 billion in 2004 (latest data available), while sales of services in the United States by majority European Union owned firms were $224.3 billion. The stock of U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) in the European Union in 2005 was $949.0 billion (latest data available), down from $973.0 billion in 2004. U.S. FDI in the European Union is concentrated largely in the non-bank holding companies, manufacturing, finance, and wholesale trade sectors. ... Read more

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This volume examines one of the major systemic changes in world economic history: the economic transformation in the Central European nations and the former Soviet states. Part I considers the dramatic adjustments in commodity structure and the geographic distribution of trade in these countries, while Part II surveys the sweeping transition of the Central and Eastern European countries' payments systems and the evolution of financial markets, exchange rates, and banking systems. Forms of integration with the global economy and proposed requirements for accession to the European Union are considered in Part III, and Part IV presents a model evaluating the record of structural adjustments in these transforming economies. ... Read more

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Japanese Manufacturing Investment in Europe is a provocative examination of the causes and consequences of the growing internationalization of Japanese business and Japan's increasing involvement in the economies of EC countries.

When in the mid-1980s, a surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) among the five great powers took place, Japanese manufacturing investment in Europe occupied the forefront of this unprecedented growth and involved an even wider range of industries than before. This volume provides twenty-seven detailed case studies of Japanese companies in order to demonstrate the diversity of adopted strategies. Roger Strange also reviews the current literature on FDI and trade policy and argues for a new theoretical framework in the assessment of foreign direct investment. ... Read more

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The Southeast Europe (SEE) region comprises a group of countries with a common objective, and prospect, to become members of the European Union (EU). To achieve the goal of EU membership, these countries have pursued closer integration with the EU as well as with each other. In December 2006, the SEE countries, and Moldova, signed the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), a comprehensive free trade agreement that aims to fully liberalize trade in the region as well as to achieve greater cooperation in a number of trade-related areas. This book is part of the World Bank s efforts to understand the impact of CEFTA on regional trade flows, as well as to put forward other, complementary, ideas that could enhance further regional trade integration. The first study looks at intra-regional trade flows and the remaining non-tariff barriers to trade in the region. The second study assesses the costs and benefits of allow free movement of skilled labor within the region, and the last study looks at how adopting the EU s Common External Tariff could prevent trade diversion.Intra-regional trade has increased rapidly in recent years, however, the content of trade flows do not signal significant trade integration, similar to what the countries of Central and Eastern Europe achieved in the past decade. Following the tariff liberalization, non-tariff barriers have become the main obstacles for trade. Enhanced regional trade integration should not be confined only to free movement of goods. Increased labor mobility could also have trade creation effects and help create a more integrated regional market. Finally, tariff structures in many countries of the region allow some scope for trade diversion in favor of EU and CEFTA countries at the expense of the rest of the world. Such trade diversion could be reduced by adopting EU s Common External Tariff structure. ... Read more

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The EU remains the most powerful European trading bloc, accounting for four-fifths of all European trade. If the anticipated expansion of the EU goes ahead, it will become a pan-European trading bloc of 19 countries. This book is an analysis of recent and future developments of European trade. Topics covered include: patterns of European trade; the single market; the European Union and its trade policies; EU trade links with EFTA countries and the transition economies of central and eastern Europe; trade issues in Europe's relations with Japan and the US; Europe, the Third World and the NIC's; GATT and the Uruguay round; and protectionism versus liberalization. ... Read more

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Title: Xylexpo/Sasmil adapts to the times: a weakened global economy and proliferation of international trade shows leads organizers to reinvent Europe's second largest woodworking event.
Author: Rich Christianson
Publication: Wood & Wood Products (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Vance Publishing Corp.
Volume: 109Issue: 5Page: 65(1)

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The Arab countries of the southern Mediterranean rim have long suffered from economic stagnation and an increasing marginalization in the global economy. Deeper economic integration with the enlarged European Union – accounting for a quarter of global GDP and foreign direct investment – could become a main driver for economic development in the southern Mediterranean countries. The planned Euro-Mediterranean free trade area for goods is a first step into that direction, but additional measures are needed to translate geographic proximity into economic growth; especially, the removal of non-tariff barriers, the liberalization of services trade, and comprehensive behind-the-border policy reforms. The European Neighborhood Policy, launched in 2003, could provide an appropriate policy framework for an integration strategy between the EU and its southern periphery.

This title analyzes the adjustment needs and policy options associated with deeper integration between the two sides of the Mediterranean Sea. It puts specific emphasis on the dynamics of deeper integration at the company level, including issues such as outward processing trade, supply-chain integration, and the outsourcing of back-office functions. In addition to a general discussion of deeper integration and trade in services liberalization, the title also contains a detailed assessment of individual sectors – especially the backbone services (e.g. transport, telecommunication, financial markets, electricity) and other markets of particular relevance for deeper integration (e.g. tourism, IT-enabled services, distribution services). Even though the main focus is on regional integration, the title also factors multilateral liberalization issues into its analysis (e.g. the GATS, the WTO Doha Round) as well as options for the pursuit of an open regionalism. ... Read more

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This brief publication aims to provide useful information for formulating technical assistance projects for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) countries. The publication provides a historical background about the unfolding of the free trade agreements and a summary of existing trade preferences. The analysis then turns to an evaluation of the remaining barriers to trade. ... Read more

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The authors give the background of the current situation by summarising the evolution of the GATT and cataloguing the principle measures of protection currently being applied by the community and its member states. ... Read more

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Examining Franco-American cinema relations, this book details France's periodic attempts to curb Hollywood's access to the European market. It focuses on the French influence on-and the American reaction to-the European Union's Television Without Frontiers directive and the dramatic crisis-ridden talks during the Uruguay round of the final 1993 GATT negotiation. These climactic events, which nearly led to a breakdown in world trade in intellectual property, are set in the context of commercial and legal history and the two countries' competing concepts of art and commerce. ... Read more

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Great Franco-American cinema overview
"Some Big Bourgois" comprehensively recounts the events and provides analysis/context for battles over audio/visual trade culminating with the 1990s battle over European TV quotas capping sales of Hollywood product. The book recounts how, amazingly for five years, the U.S. gov't didn't seem to realize that constant French lobbying for quotas was going to overcome internal European opposition. As the book notes, the protectionist quota had some unanticipated drawbacks for its main supporter by, for example, making it hard for French TV producers to latch on to international co-productions mostly made in English. I have 25 years experience covering TV/Film with articles in Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Los Angeles Times, so I my eyes usually glaze over when books get historical. However, I was fascinated by context of the US-French film history in the early 20th century including learning that MGM and Gaumont actually merged for a time in the 1920s. This is an academic paper expanded to a book and where the footnotes provide an interesting backgrounder clustered at end of chapters. ... Read more