ECONIS Select – Addressing the New Protectionism

06/2009

After a long period of successful unilateral and multilateral dismantling of protectionism, the current crisis appears to herald the beginning of new restrictions on international trade. Industrialised countries have begun to subsidise their national champions and risk the breakup of cross-border value added chains.

Emerging markets and developing countries have started to raise border charges which they have not bound multilaterally and subsidise their exports. Other trade-impeding measures find new compatriots. Both free mobility of capital as well as free labour movement are at risk. Retaliatory spirals can no longer be dismissed as unrealistic once politicians defend national companies on national territories in order to help national workers.

How can the race to offer subsidies they offer be contained? Is an OECD code of rules the appropriate response following the examples of other policy areas? Should multilateral trading rules against export subsidies and, conversely, export restrictions be sharpened and, if so, how? Are there better measures available against unfair trading practices than countervailing measures and anti-dumping tariffs which are now increasingly enforced? Can more flexibility on labour markets, including new models of task-oriented learning, be helpful in dampening the sector-specific supply and demand shocks for workers? And should domestic adjustment measures not focus on protecting the income-generating potential of workers rather than the production of specific products?

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Paper: Intellectual property protection as strategic trade policy / James A. Brander
  In: Asia-Pacific journal of accounting & economics . - Hong Kong, ISSN 1608-1625, ZDB-ID 21932037. - Bd. 14.2007, 3, S. 195-217
  Keywords: Immaterialgüterrechte / Internationales Patentrecht / Internationale wirtschaftspolitische Koordination / Strategische Handelspolitik / USA / Welt
• Paper: Strategic trade policy aspects of the Kyoto Protocol : extracting oil rents / Zhihao Yu
  In: Asia-Pacific journal of accounting & economics . - Hong Kong, ISSN 1608-1625, ZDB-ID 21932037. - Bd. 14.2007, 3, S. 219-234
  Keywords: Klimaschutz / Umweltabkommen / Strategische Handelspolitik / Erdöl / Rententheorie / Duopol / OPEC-Staaten
• Paper: Does flexibility promote cooperation? : an application to the global trade regime / Jeffrey Kucik and Eric Reinhardt
  In: International organization . - Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0020-8183, ZDB-ID 2074205. - Bd. 62.2008, 3, S. 477-505
  Keywords: Handelsabkommen / WTO-Regeln / Antidumping / Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen / Welt / 1981-2003
• Title: Immunising future trade against protectionists : preventing the emergence of more sensitive sectors / Andrew Elek
  Institution: Australia-Japan Research Centre
  Year: Canberra ACT : Australia-Japan Research Centre, c2008
  Series: Asia Pacific economic paper ; no. 372
  Keywords: Protektionismus / Außenhandelspräferenz / Außenhandelsliberalisierung / Internationale wirtschaftspolitische Koordination / APEC-Staaten
  Signature: W 377 (372)
• Title: International competition in vertically differentiated markets with innovation and imitation: trade policy versus free trade / Eugen Kováè; Krešimir Žigiæ
  Year: Prague, 2007
  Series: Working paper series / CERGE-EI ; 336
  Keywords: Internationaler Wettbewerb / Produktdifferenzierung / Freihandel / Strategische Handelspolitik / Industriestaaten / Entwicklungsländer
  Signature: W 695 (336)
• Paper: Understanding agreements on TRIPS and subsidies in tandem / Moonsung Kang
  In: Open economies review . - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, ISSN 0923-7992, ZDB-ID 10732913. - Bd. 20.2009, 2, S. 225-240
  Keywords: Immaterialgüterrechte / TRIPS / Strategische Handelspolitik / Forschungssubvention / Welt
• Paper: Reciprocated unilateralism in trade policy / Pravin Krishna, Devashish Mitra
  In: Journal of international economics . - Amsterdam [u.a.]; Jena : Elsevier, ISSN 0022-1996, ZDB-ID 1201438. - Bd. 65.2005, 2, S. 461-487
  Keywords: Außenhandelspolitik / |stw| Interessenpolitik / |stw| Außenhandelsliberalisierung / |stw| Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen / |stw| Zollpolitik / |stw| Protektionismus / |stw| Internationaler Wettbewerb / |stw| Theorie
• Paper: Unilateralism in a multilateral world / Wilfred Ethier
  In: New developments in international trade . - Kobe : Research Inst. for Economics & Business Administration. - 2003, S. 65-97
  Keywords: Außenwirtschaftspolitik / |stw| Theorie
• Title: The brave new world of cross-regionalism / Alfred Tovias
  Year: Apr. 2008
  Anbieter: Paris : CEPII
  Series: Document de travail / Centre dEtudes Prospectives et dInformations Internationales ; 2008,03
  Keywords: Außenhandelspolitik / Strategische Handelspolitik / Handelsregionalismus / Außenhandelspräferenz / Freihandelszone / Nord-Süd-Beziehungen
  Link: http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/...p/pdf/2008/redirect/wp2008-03.htm
• Title: Retaliation in the WTO dispute settlement system / Sherzod Shadikhodjaev
  Year: Alphen aan den Rijn [u.a.] : Kluwer Law Int. [u.a.], 2009
  Series: Global trade law series ; 19
  Keywords: Retorsionsmaßnahme / Internationale Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit / WTO-Regeln / Rechtsdurchsetzung / Welt
  Link: Table of contents
  Signature: B 362754
• Paper: Imperfect competition, agriculture and development / Kyle W. Stiegert
  In: Commodity market review . - Rome : FAO, ISSN 1020-492X, ZDB-ID 13781479. - 2007/08, S. 35-50
  Keywords: Agraraußenhandel / Nahrungsmittel / Außenhandel / Unvollkommener Wettbewerb / Strategische Handelspolitik / Entwicklungsländer
• Paper: Globally optimal R&D subsidy policy : an economists view on the WTO subsidy agreement / Moonsung Kang
  In: Journal of economic integration . - Seoul, ISSN 1225-651X, ZDB-ID 11376946. - Bd. 23.2008, 2, S. 346-359
  Keywords: Strategische Handelspolitik / Forschungssubvention / WTO-Regeln / Theorie
• Paper: Does antidumping use contribute to trade liberalization in developing countries? / Michael O. Moore; Maurizio Zanardi
  In: The Canadian journal of economics . - Boston, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell, ISSN 0008-4085, ZDB-ID 2181174. - Bd. 42.2009, 2, S. 469-495
  Keywords: Antidumping / Außenhandelsliberalisierung / Entwicklungsländer / 1988-2004
• Title: Safeguards and antidumping in Latin American trade liberalization / J. Michael Finger; Julio J. Nogués
  Year: Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Trade Team, July 2008
  Series: Policy research working paper ; 4680
  Keywords: Außenhandelspolitik / |stw| Protektionismus / |stw| Antidumping / |stw| Lateinamerika
  Link: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/exte...23153228/Rendered/PDF/WPS4680.pdf
• Title: Circumvention and anti-circumvention measures : the impact on anti-dumping practice in international trade / Yanning Yu
  Year: Alphen aan den Rijn [u.a.] : Kluwer Law Int., 2008
  Series: Global trade law series ; 13
  Keywords: Antidumping / Handelsabkommen / EU-Staaten / NAFTA-Staaten / Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum
  Link: Table of contents
  Signature: B 355974
• Paper: What explains the proliferation of antidumping laws? / Hylke Vandenbussche and Maurizio Zanardi
  In: Economic policy . - Oxford : Blackwell, ISSN 0266-4658, ZDB-ID 6228859. - Bd. 53.2008, S. 95-138
  Keywords: Antidumping / Protektionismus / Außenhandelspolitik / Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse / Schätzung / Welt / 1980-2003
• Title: Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information / Xenia Matschke ; Anja Schöttner
  Year: München : CESifo, 2009
  Series: CESifo working paper ; 2536 : Trade policy
  Keywords: Antidumping / Strategische Handelspolitik / Asymmetrische Information / Spieltheorie / WTO-Regeln / Theorie / Welt
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  Link: http://www.cesifo-group.de/~DocCIDL/cesifo1_wp2536.pdf
• Paper: WTO : antidumping issues in the Doha Development Agenda / Vivian C. Jones
  In: The World Trade Organization . - New York, NY : Nova Science Publ., ISBN 1-600-21816-4. - 2007, S. 153-172
  Keywords: Internationale Handelspolitik / Handelsabkommen / Antidumping / Welt
• Title: Economic policy : protectionism as an elite strategy / Vo Phuong Mai Le, Patrick Minford and Eric Nowell
  Year: 2009
  Anbieter: Cardiff : Cardiff Univ, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section
  Series: Cardiff economics working papers ; 2009,1
  Keywords: Protektionismus / Verarbeitendes Gewerbe / Zollpolitik / Wettbewerb / Wohlfahrtseffekt / Politisches Ziel / Europäische Integration / EU-Staaten
  Link: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/econ/workingpapers/papers/E2009_1.pdf
• Paper: Market share delegation and strategic trade policy / Leonard F. S. Wang; Ya-Chin Wang; Lihong Zhao
  In: Journal of industry, competition and trade . - Dordrecht : Springer, ISSN 1566-1679, ZDB-ID 20671209. - Bd. 9.2009, 1, S. 49-56
  Keywords: Marktanteil / Unvollkommener Markt / Exportsubvention / Zolltarif / Strategische Handelspolitik / Theorie