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Инструментариум на съвременната протекционистична политика на Европейския съюз
TOOLS OF THE CONTEMPORARY PROTECTIONIST POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Author(s): Kalin Ganchev
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Стопанска академия »Д. А. Ценов«
Keywords: Protectionist policy; liberalism; unfair trade; dumping; safeguards.

Summary/Abstract: Despite the triumphal march of economic globalization, whosemain characteristic is trade liberalization, countries and supranational integrationformations have not abandoned, but improved the regulatory effects on internationaltrade. The most decisive in the conduct of protectionist policy has been, in no smallpart, to continue to be the leaders of economic and technological dynamism - theUSA, Japan and the European Community. The paper discusses the basic measuresthat protectionism is applied in practice: import licensing arrangements; duties withhigher rates; import quotas; MIPs; minimum duties; additional duties and / or importtaxes; import bans; dumping and countervailing duties. Conclusion, that contemporaryforms and manifestations of these traditional instruments to mitigate foreign goods competition in favor of taking local farms are united in a common term“neoprotectionism”, has been reached.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 83-94
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian