International Trade Policy and European Industry The Case of the Electronics Business

Trade policy has played a vital role in the decline of European electronics business. The events that resulted in the disappearance of the European television industry, of a European and Japanese video recorder format and of other European consumer electronics are directly related to market structur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: van Marion, Marcel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Limitations of Voluntary Restraints
  • Follies of Voluntary Restraints: Politics and Economics
  • CD Players: Laster Light at the End of the Tunnel
  • Meeting the Challenge: Blind Alley of New Protection
  • Trade Rules and Struggle for Margin
  • Market Structure and Dumping
  • Myth of Japanese Efficiency: Dumping of Compact Disc Players
  • Aftermath of VCRs: the Politicised End to a Coninuing Story
  • Blurred Picture: Trade Policy and Television's Future in the Dark
  • Orientation on Origin Rules: a Digression on Discrimination
  • Inter and Intra European Company Politics
  • Trade Policy and Pressure Politics: Fax Machines
  • Dark Practices in Lighting
  • Methodology of Dumping
  • Elements in the Determination of the Level of Measures
  • After All