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Canada failed to respond with innovative solutions to shifting international economic pressures emerging in the 1970s. Canadian trade policy embraced offensive solutions in areas of comparative adv...

In this article, we analyze the European Union’s (EU) approach to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, showing that there is a wide gap between its normative opposition to the occupation, Israel’s expanding settlement project, and the EU’s foreign trade policy. Our argument is not only that there is no evidence of norm diffusion from the EU to Israel, but that within the EU itself there is no diffusion from the normative political stance to the EU’s economic interests. The Israeli case suggests that the pro-democracy activists of Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria should be aware that the trade interests of the EU Member States will ultimately trump the EU’s political declarations.

There are four theoretical perspectives that can be used to explain foreign trade policy tendencies: the international political view, the international economic view, the domestic statist view and the domestic societal view. By reflecting these four theoretical perspectives the determinants of US antidumping decisions are analysed. The findings indicate that the international political and domestic societal perspectives dominate the analysis. Specifically, international tension and the level of organization of interest group since 1980 appear to be highly relevant for understanding US antidumping decisions.

(2007). Formulating Israel's Foreign Trade Policy. Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 97-106.

Socialist foreign trade in our country has been conducted under the brilliant leadership and with the personal concern of our great leader Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee. Chairman Mao personally laid down a series of foreign trade principles and policies. Our beloved Premier Chou himself was consistently involved in foreign trade activities. Since Comrade Hua Kuo-feng assumed responsibility in the Central Committee, he, too, has paid great attention to foreign trade and has issued quite a few important directives in this regard. Though foreign trade suffered from the interference of the counterrevolutionary revisionist line pursued by Liu Shao-ch'i and Lin Piao, Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line has always played the leading role in this area.

China's economy recovered from the war devastation during the first three years, 1950-1952, after the founding of the People's Republic. Practically all production in the branches of the economy either reached or surpassed the record of old China. The first five-year plan was launched in 1953, and gross industrial output increased during the plan period by 120%, while agricultural output rose by 25%. It was in that period that the Chinese people — through their own efforts, under the leadership of the Communist Party, and with the help of the socialist countries, particularly the Soviet Union — successfully laid the foundation for the further development of socialism and socialist industrialization. And it was through the active assistance of the Soviet Union that 156 projects were built during the first plan period.