 Trade Discrimination - Yesterday's Problem?Richard H. Snape
No 100, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics Abstract: Existing tariff levels of many countries, and particularly of developing countries and on agriculture for most countries, still give plenty of scope for trade discrimination. For non-tariff barriers there is substantial scope for discrimination within and beyond the transitional arrangements of the Uruguay Round agreements, as well as under free trade agreements, customs unions and developing country preferences. Criteria are suggested which could ensure that preferential trading arrangements would promote rather than undermine the development of a liberal, multilateral trading system. However actual preferential arrangements generally fall well short of satisfying these criteria. The proliferation of preferential (that is discriminatory) arrangements suggests there is a real possibility that the negative aspects of discrimination could be a problem of tomorrow, and not just of yesterday. Keywords: Trade preferences; discrimination; Uruguay Round (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in The Economic Record, 1996, pages 381-396 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:hastef:0100 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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