1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298552803321

Autore

van Marion Marcel

Titolo

International Trade Policy and European Industry : The Case of the Electronics Business / / by Marcel van Marion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-00392-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (475 p.)

Collana

Contributions to Economics, , 1431-1933

Disciplina

343.0870261

382.3094

Soggetti

International economics

Industrial organization

International law

Trade

Economic policy

International Economics

Industrial Organization

International Economic Law, Trade Law

Economic Policy

Europe Commercial policy Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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 structures in exporting countries and business practices. In this book, factual business data shows and economic models explain how restrictive trade practices result in elimination of efficient competitors in export markets. It deals with the memorable case how a videocassette recorder format was established by dumping and how politics enabled it. An innovative tariff increase for CD players was invalidated by heavy dumping, causing closure of production in Europe. European CTV industry succumbed under permanent dumping and a series of biases – as the interest of a state-owned company – and serious errors making trade instruments void and rules irreconcilable with international agreements. Practical and theoretical examples and explanations, some in detail, of trade rules are provided. The book sketches events – carelessness, prejudice or special interests, arbitrary and false application of trade instruments and fraud – resulting in disappearance of various European electronics business segments.