Protectionism, Internal Market Completion, and Foreign Trade Policy in the European Community

Carlo Secchi

Chapter 2 in The New Protectionist Wave, 1990, pp 39-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In quantitative terms the European Community (EC) is the most important actor in world trade. The fundamental principle on which the EC is based, as indicated in the Preface to the Treaty of Rome, is freedom of trade. This does not mean that the 12 countries in the community are models of liberalism in their domestic and foreign relations. In fact, despite the abolition of tariff barriers, the community market is still subject to many non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and regulations that affect internal trade, while trade policy toward third countries contains a significant amount of protection, not to mention the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other sectoral policies.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; European Community; Trade Policy; Common Agricultural Policy; External Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11064-3_2

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