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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Author's Note -- I Origin: 1934-70 -- Chapter 1 The Root Problem: Political Imbalance -- Chapter 2 The 1934 System: Protection for Congress -- Protecting Congress from Trade Pressures -- The System's Advantages and Limits -- The System's Contradictions -- II Erosion and Adaptation: 1971-94 -- Chapter 3 A Tougher World: Changes in the Context of Trade Policy -- 15 August as Prologue -- The Trade Explosioin -- The "Decline" of the United States -- The Rise of New Competitors -- The Erosion of the GATT -- Stagflation -- Floating Exchange Rates and Dollar "Misalignment -- Economic Triopolarity and the End of the Cold War -- A Tougher World -- Chapter 4 A Less Protected Congress -- Congressional Reform and the Weakening of Ways and Means -- Renewing the Delegation of Power: The "Fast-Track" Procedures -- Industry-Specific Proposals: The Automobile Case -- Committee Competition and Policy Entrepreneurship -- The Trade and Tariff Act of 1984: Pressure Contained -- 1985-88: The Years of Trade -- The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 -- NAFTA and Fast-Track Renewal -- 1984 and After: The Leadership Difference -- Chapter 5 An Embattled Executive -- STR's Early Ups and Downs -- Strauss and the MTN: The STR on Center Stage -- The Executive Broker and Its Critics -- The Carter Reorganization -- Reagan I: Commerce Versus USTR -- USTR and Presidential Ambivalence -- Liberal Words, Protectionist Deeds -- Reagan II: An Eight-Month Vacuum -- Reagan II: The Shift to Activism -- Targeting the World: Section 301 -- Targeting Japan: From MOSS to Semiconductor Sanctions -- Working the Trade Bill: Damage Limitation -- Carla Hills and Super 301 -- Geneva Versus Mexico City? -- NAFTA but Not (Yet) GATT -- Chapter 6 Changing the Rules: The Rise of Administrative Trade Remedies -- Through the Early 1970s: Little Relief.
The Trade Act of 1974 -- The Result: Slightly More Relief -- The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 -- The Declining Use of the Escape Clause -- The Decline of Trade Adjustment Assistance -- The Upsurge in "Unfair Trade" Cases -- Forcing Political Solutions -- Steel Wins Comprehensive Protection -- New Legislative Initiatives -- The Uruguay Round Antidumping Agreement -- Administrative Remedies: A Balance Sheet on 1980-94 -- The Limits of Administrative Remedies -- Chapter 7 The National Arena: New Dimensions of Conflict -- An "Amazing Political Reversal"? -- A Newly Ambivalent Elite -- Challenges to Laissez-Faire Trade Doctrine -- New Patterns of Interest Group Politics -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 Triumph! NAFTA and the WTO -- Back from the Precipice -- From Candidate to President -- The NAFTA Debate: Critics Rush to Fill the Vacuum -- Clinton Recovers, and Wins Big -- Japan, China, and APEC -- Brussels and Geneva: Completing the Uruguay Round -- US Business, Human Rights, and the China Market -- Japan: Failure and Modest Success -- Implementing the Uruguay Round: A Slow Start -- Antidumping: Reversing the Round -- The Loss of Future Fast Track -- The WTO and US "Sovereignty -- Delaying the Process: Dole, Hollings, and Gingrich -- From Partisan Wrangle to Bipartisan Victory -- End of an Era? -- III Polarization: 1995- -- Chapter 9 The Decline of Traditional Protectionism -- Economic Resurgence -- Clinton and Barshefsky: Business (Mostly) As Usual -- Trade Remedies, Especially Antidumping -- The World Trade Organization -- Reemergence of the Trade Deficit--and Its Lesser Political Impact -- The Globalization of US Business -- Two Questions -- Chapter 10 New Issues, New Stalemate -- Threat to the Social Contract? -- Impact of NAFTA -- Clinton's Fast-Track Fiasco -- Dilemmas of Substance and Process -- The Battles of Seattle -- Normalizing China.
Chapter 11 Partisan Rancor and Trade Politics in the New Century -- Polarization of Congressional Politics -- Decline of House Bipartisanship on Trade -- The House Bill in 2001: Partisan Contention -- Bipartisan Compromise in the Senate -- Zoellick and "Competitive Liberalization -- Cancun--and Geneva -- Into the Second Bush Administration -- Implications -- IV Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Conclusion: Making America Fit for Globalization -- Bringing the Benefits of Imports Out of the Closet -- Lukewarm Public Support for Trade Expansion -- Uneven Distribution of Gains from Trade Expansion -- Two Key Preconditions: Macroeconomic Balance and Productivity Improvement -- Completing the Transition to Globalization -- Completing the Transition to Globalization at Home -- Appendix A Trade Promotion Authority in 2001: The Bargain That Wasn't -- Glossary -- Index.
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American trade politics [[electronic resource] /] / I.M. Destler
