Portugal

Manuel Porto and Fernanda Costa

Chapter 13 in Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment, 1999, pp 239-251 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The main purpose of this chapter is to analyse intra-industry trade and adjustment in the Portuguese economy.1 Portugal has traditionally been quite open to international trade — having been referred to already by Ricardo in his famous example of the theory of comparative advantage. It is still a moot point among economic historians, however, whether free trade was a priority of Portuguese policy in the postwar years. Salazar’s political ideology would have favoured a more inward-looking approach, but the realization of its external economic dependency as a small nation led Portugal to follow the main integration movements. Portugal was a founder member of the OEEC and EFTA, joined the GATT in 1962, signed wide-ranging free-trade agreements with the EEC in 1972 and 1976 and joined the Community in 1986.2

Keywords: Trade Liberalization; Trade Flow; Trade Orientation; Portuguese Economy; Portuguese Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27173-3_13

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