Opening America's market : U.S. foreign trade policy since 1776 / Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckes, Alfred E., 1942-

Series:

Business, society & the state

Business, society & the state Opening America's market

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exports--United States--History.

Exports.

Free trade--United States--History.

Free trade.

United States--Commercial policy.

United States.

United States--Commercial policy--Sources.

Exports--History--United States.

Free trade--History--United States.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 402 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. Opening America's Market offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies, concentrating on the evolution of those policies over the last sixty years and placing them within a broad historical perspective. While many believe the United States rose to world leadership on the strength of its commitment to free trade, Eckes shows the facts are quite different.

Contents:

Free trade and economic security, 1776-1860

Protection and prosperity?

Unreciprocal trade

Infamous Smoot-Hawley

Cordell Hull's tariff revolution

Opening America's market, 1960-1974

Illusive safeguards

Curbing executive discretion in unfair trade cases.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-382) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9798890871787

9780807861189

0807861189