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Shows American trade policy has become more protectionist, and that unilateral confrontations could lead to destruction of free trade.

Table of Contents

Preface Background to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff The Hawley-Smoot Tariff The Building of a Liberal Trade Policy The Trade Expansion Act and the Kennedy Round The Trade Reform Act and the Tokyo Round Fair Trade and the Uruguay Round The North American Free Trade Agreement A Return to Unilateralism Bibliography Index

About the Author

EDWARD S. KAPLAN is a Professor in the Social Science Department at New York City Technical College. His speciality is economic history of the United States, and has coauthored Prelude to Trade Wars: American Tariff Policy, 1890-1922 (Greenwood Press, 1994).

Reviews

?This thorough account views current American trade policy from the perspective of more than 70 years of US international trade history....Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections.?-Choice

"This thorough account views current American trade policy from the perspective of more than 70 years of US international trade history....Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections."-Choice