An appropriate objective for trade policy ought to be to maximise imports. Unfortunately, trade policy negotiators get very caught up in the facilitation of this objective by necessarily arguing about access for exports, Krugman (1997). In this context, a ...

Overseas trade is an important feature of the New Zealand economy. Approximately one quarter of this country's gross national product is exported, and a similar proportion of gross domestic expenditure is in payment for imports. The viability of the whol ...

Britain, along with Ireland, Denmark and Norway will become a full member or the European Economic Community (EC) in January 1973. Thus the original signatories of the Treaty of Rome of 1957 (France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxem ...

The trade and wages debate worldwide, over the last decade has focused attention on the possible relationships between trade liberalisation and the factor distribution of income. In Australia real wages in manufacturing have remained about the same since ...

This discussion paper has been prepared to provide some insight into the commercial and cultural differences which affect business negotiations with the Japanese. As a destination for New Zealand exports Japan has become increasingly important in recent y ...