The New Politics of American Trade: Trade, Labor, and the Environment

by Peter J Balint, I.M. Destler, Peter Balint

Imports pour into the United States, up by 79 percent in six years. The trade deficit more than doubles. The House of Representatives solidly rejects a bill that would liberalize global and regional trade and endorses import quotas for a major manufactured product by a two-to-one margin. Although at first glance these events of the 1990s might sound like past chapters of US trade politics, in fact the political dynamics have changed in significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881322695
• ISBN13: 9780881322699
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"