American Business and Foreign Policy
Subtitle: Cases in Coffee and Cocoa Trade Regulation 1961-1974
By: Joseph Short
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: International Trade Policy -- 1; Routledge Library Editions: International Trade Policy -- Volume 1
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780203733295
Subjects: Coffee industry; Cocoa trade; Foreign trade regulation; Business and politics; Café; Commerce; Cacao; Affaires et politique; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Exports & Imports; International; General; Marketing; POLITICAL SCIENCE; International Relations; Trade & Tariffs
Description: "Developing countries have for many decades waged a campaign for the global regulation of trade in primary products through international commodity agreements. Heavily dependent upon exports of primary products, developing countries hope to regulate the markets for their commodities to achieve higher prices. While there is a myriad of obstacles to agreements, the blame for slow progress is often laid at the feet of the industrial, commodity-consuming countries, particularly the US. This book, first published in 1987, is a comparative case study that closely analyses how American businesses behaved in relation to US government responses to developing countries' demands for commodity agreements for coffee and cocoa."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: chapter I The Economics of Coffee and Cocoa Trade; title: chapter II Primary Actors: Business and The State Department; title: chapter III American Business and The International Coffee Agreement; title: chapter IV Business, Congress and The Coffee Agreement; title: chapter V United States and Brazil: American Business and The Soluble Coffee Dispute; title: chapter VI American Business and The Cocoa Negotiations.