Corporate Versus National Interest in Us Trade Policy: Chiquita and Caribbean Bananas

by Richard L Bernal

Book Overview

This book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US-owned multinational firm, Chiquita Brands International. It documents and explains how Chiquita succeeded in having the Clinton administration pursue a trade policy of forcing the European Union to dismantle its preferential banana import regime for exports from the small English-speaking Caribbean (ESC) countries. The export of bananas was critically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030569497
• ISBN13: 9783030569495
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"