Recent Trends in Tariff and Nontariff Barriers to Trade in the United States.

Focuses on trade barrier trends in the United States. Evaluation of the economic growth from 1990 to 1999; Implications of zero tariff application for the national tariff line; Involvement of import prohibitors, import licensing and quantitative restrictions in nontariff barriers; Decline in the use of countervailing duties to counteract unfair trade practices.