North American Free Trade Agreement: a focus on the substantive issues.

Mode of access: Internet.

Pamphlets on free trade.

Binder's title. Table of contents in each vol.

The effects of the new system of free trade upon our shipping, colonies, & commerce, exposed in a letter to the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade.

Mode of access: Internet.

A North American free trade area? : a brief review of the major issues /

"May 17, 1991."

Potential costs of the North American Free Trade Agreement /

"November 1993."

United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act : report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 4340) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

"December 6, 2005."

Providing for consideration of H.R. 4340, United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act : report (to accompany H. Res. 583).

"December 6, 2005."

The creed of free trade.

"Reprinted from the Atlantic monthly for August, 1875."

North American free trade agreement : text / prepared September 6, 1992.

Title on transmittal page: NAFTA text.

International trade and the impact on the U.S. soda ash industry : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Trade of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session (Rock Springs, WY) April 15, 2004.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement--1988 : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session.

Item 1038-A, 1038-B (microfiche)

Free trade;

Mode of access: Internet.

Three essays on trade and investment

From H. G. Johnson's work (Review of Economic Studies, 1953–54) on tariff retaliation, the questions of whether a country can win a “tariff war” and how or even the broader question of what will affect a country's strategic position in setting bilateral tariff have been tackled in various situations. Although it is widely accepted that a country will have strategic advantages in winning the tariff war if its relative monopoly power is sufficiently large, it is unclear what are the forces behind such power formation. The goal of this research is to provide a unified framework and discuss various forces such as relative country size, absolute advantages and relative advantages simultaneously. In a two-country continuum-of-commodity neoclassical trade model, it is shown that sufficiently large relative country size is a sufficient condition for a country to choose a non-cooperative tariff Nash equilibrium over free trade. It is also shown that technology disparities such as absolute advantage, rate of technology disparity and the distribution of the technology disparity all contribute to a country's strategic position and interact with country size. ^ Leverage effect is usually used to explain the phenomenon of asymmetric volatility in equity returns. However, leverage itself can only account for parts of the asymmetry. In this research, it is shown that stock return volatility is related to firms’ financial status. Financially constrained firms tend to be more sensitive to the return changes. Financial constraint factor explains why some firms tend to be more volatile than others. I found that the financial constraint factor explains the stock return volatility independent of other factors such as firm size, industry affiliation and leverage. Firms’ industry affiliations are shown to be very weak in differentiating volatility. Firm size is proven to be a good factor in distinguishing the different levels of volatility and volatility-return sensitivity. Leverage hypothesis is also partly corroborated and the situation where leverage effect is not applicable is discussed. Finally, I examined the macroeconomic policy's effects on overall market volatility. ^

The Increasing Power of the European Parliament: Negotiating the EU-India Free Trade Agreement

Since the Lisbon Treaty increased the legal role of the European Parliament (EP) in EU trade policy, there has been a debate about the extent to which these legal competencies have translated into actual influence over the content and outcome of EU trade negotiations. Using the case study of the on-going trade negotiations between the EU and India, this article argues that the impact of the EP has indeed been significant. Through two-level game analysis, which extends its domestic focus to include the EP as a domestic constituent, it demonstrates how the EP has affected the EU win-set in ways that have both hindered and facilitated agreement at the international level between the EU and India. It also shows how the EP has affected the negotiating dynamics and how the EU negotiators have had their preferences somewhat compromised by the EP in their attempt at reaching an agreement with India.