Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy

by Michael J. Gilligan

Until the New Deal, most groups seeking protection from imports were successful in obtaining relief from Congress. In general the cost of paying the tariffs for consumers was less than the cost of mounting collective action to stop the tariffs. In 1934, with the passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, all of this changed. The six decades that followed have produced a remarkable liberalization of trade policy in the United States. This occurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108239
• ISBN13: 9780472108237
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"