WTO and the World Trading System: Where Do We from Here?

WTO and the World Trading System: Where Do We Go from Here?

- Speaker: Anne O. Krueger, Professor, Stanford University

- Date: December 6, 1995

Much of the pressure on the international trading system results from the increased sensitivity of producers in virtually all countries to the behavior of their competitors globally. The gains from increasing interdependence are cheerfully absorbed, but the friction - real and imaginary - that result generate protectionist pressures not only from those affected or genuinely threatened, but also from groups the believe their adverse fortunes are the result of international pressures...