Domestic structures and international trade
Subtitle: the unfair trade instruments of the United States and the European Union
By: Candido Tomas Garcia Molyneux.
Series: Studies in European law and integration
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Foreign trade regulation -- European Union countries.; Foreign trade regulation -- United States.; Competition, Unfair -- United States.; Competition, Unfair -- European Union countries.; Restraint of trade -- United States.; Restraint of trade -- European Union countries.
Description: "This book places international trade law within an economic, political and sociological context, contending that globalisation is characterised by both homogeneity and diversity. However, while implying changes within contracting parties, globalisation only results in a 'thin' homogeneity. Furthermore, globalisation is the result of the interaction, negotiations and policies between states. From this perspective, the book attempts to explain trade policy as resulting from domestic factors. Thus, if globalisation is characterised by diversity, how do such differences affect the trade policy of states in an era where nearly everything is subject to commerce? The book focuses on the US and the EC, analysing different institutional and substantive aspects of unfair trade instruments, such as anti-dumping and countervailing measures and market access instruments. Domestically, it focuses on both constitutional and socio-economic constraints. The book considers political action prescribed by formal constitutions in a wider socio-economic context, rejecting the a-historical and structurally blind normative idea of free trade."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-295) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, Florence, 1999.