EXPORT-IMPORT POLICY (2 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Identify the case of export import policy; Explain practices in export import policy cases; Analyze procedures and policy regulation in export import business.

Topics:

1. Modern history of trade policy;
2. Why are there trade agreements?;
3. Rules of origin and tariff circumvention;
4. Trade and domestic policy: Conduct and modeling;
5. Import quotas and voluntary export restraints;
6. Tariff rate quotas;
7. Direct and indirect export subsidies;
8. Anti-dumping: Theory and practice, rationales and calculation methods;
9. Unfair subsidies and countervailing duties;
10. The generalized system of preferences and special and differential treatment for developing countries in the GATT and WTO;
11. International commodity agreements;
12. Dispute settlement, compensation and retaliation under the WTO;
13. Economic sanctions for foreign policy purposes: a survey of the twentieth century.