Title: Tariffs, trade, and European integration, 1947-1957
First published: 1997
Description: Wendy Asbeek Brusse provides us with the first comprehensive, multicountry reconstruction of the commercial-policy origins of European integration. Based on archival sources of six countries, Tariffs, Trade and European Integration, 1947-1957 shows that the creation of the Common Market can only be fully understood if one takes into account its economic underpinning.

Immediately after the war, European countries were continuously searching for economic stability, welfare and commercial disarmament, but existing international markets could not satisfy their aspirations. Only by reaching for novel solutions did they bring the trade wars of the 1930s finally to an end and lay the foundation for European Union.
Subjects: Commercial policy, Economic integration, European Economic Community, History, Tariff, Europäische Integration, International economic integration, Zollpolitik, Außenhandelspolitik, UE/CE Histoire, Histoire économique, Politique tarifaire, Politique commerciale, GATT, Organisation européenne de coopération économique, Tarieven, Europese integratie, Handel, Europe, commercial policy, Europe, economic integration, Tariff, europe
Places: Europe
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HF2036 .B78 1997