| Autor: |
Dean Spinanger |
| Rok vydání: |
1991 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
European Economic Review. 35:543-551 |
| ISSN: |
0014-2921 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/0014-2921(91)90156-d |
| Popis: |
Where can experience in liberalization policies vis-a-vis textiles be observed and analyzed? Generally speaking, evidence to the contrary seems to prevail. namely that trade in textiles is becoming more restrictive. While this paper shows that there can be no doubt about textile product exports from LDCs to ICs having made substantial inroads into IC markets — perhaps liberalization in a de facto sense? - it also notes that the forthcoming negotiations about an extension or elimination of the MFA are — at least as concerns the EC in connection with its common internal market — beset with formidable stumbling blocks. In particular it is pointed out that the strictly—controlled individual country quotas within the EC represent a real threat to de jura trade liberalization. Nonetheless, at the same time it can be hardly be overlooked — as is portrayed in this paper - that these quotas harbor a potential to considerably increase consumers' welfare in the EC. The question is then examined as to how consumers' welfare can be more effectively counterbalanced against those of producers' in order to ensure that the benefits of liberalization are more easily realized. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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