The New Protectionism
Non-Tariff Barriers and Their Effects on Canada
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1981
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888624420
- Publish Date
- Jan 1981
- List Price
- $45.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888624413
- Publish Date
- Jan 1981
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552773758
- Publish Date
- Feb 2008
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
Written in the early 1980s against a backdrop of strengthening calls for a North American free trade agreement, this study examines the protectionist impulses masquerading as efforts to eliminate tariff barriers.
In the wake of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the GATT), the popular assumption hailed it as a victory for freer trade. Lazar demonstrates that the trend was in fact towards a new protectionism based on the erection of non-tariff barriers specifically designed to subvert the GATT. In response, he called for a Canadian industrial strategy that promoted Canadian companies and encouraged exports.
The New Protectionism is a subtle analysis of the rhetoric and reality of free trade as practised in the early 1980s.
About the author
FRED LAZAR is a professor of economics at York University. He also teaches at the Schulich School of Business.