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International Trade Policy and European Industry

The Case of the Electronics Business

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Marcel van Marion

    1. Eindhoven, Netherlands

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  • Explains the impact of trade policy on industry development
  • Case study on trade practices in European consumer electronics business
  • Economic models explain dumping and distortion of comparative advantage
  • Practical guide for business how to conduct trade policy and avoid pitfalls?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 1-4

  3. Limitations of Voluntary Restraints

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 5-49

  4. Follies of Voluntary Restraints: Politics and Economics

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 51-64

  5. CD Players: Laser Light at the End of the Tunnel

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 65-83

  6. Meeting the Challenge: Blind Alley of New Protection

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 85-108

  7. Trade Rules and Struggle for Margin

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 109-117

  8. Japan’s Market Structure as International Trade Barrier

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 119-140

  9. Market Structure and Dumping

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 141-171

  10. Myth of Japanese Efficiency: Dumping of Compact Disc Players

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 173-192

  11. Aftermath of VCRs: The Politicised End to a Continuing Story

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 193-214

  12. Blurred Picture: Trade Policy and Television’s Future in the Dark

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 215-254

  13. Orientation on Origin Rules: A Digression on Discrimination

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 255-297

  14. Inter and Intra European Company Politics

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 299-320

  15. Trade Policy and Pressure Politics: Fax Machines

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 321-352

  16. Dark Practices in Lighting

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 353-406

  17. Methodology of Dumping

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 407-445

  18. After All

    • Marcel van Marion
    Pages 447-454
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About this book

Trade policy has played a vital role in the decline of European electronics business. The events that resulted in the disappearance of the European television industry, of a European and Japanese video recorder format and of other European consumer electronics are directly related to market structures in exporting countries and business practices. In this book, factual business data shows and economic models explain how restrictive trade practices result in elimination of efficient competitors in export markets. It deals with the memorable case how a videocassette recorder format was established by dumping and how politics enabled it. An innovative tariff increase for CD players was invalidated by heavy dumping, causing closure of production in Europe. European CTV industry succumbed under permanent dumping and a series of biases – as the interest of a state-owned company – and serious errors making trade instruments void and rules irreconcilable with international agreements. Practical and theoretical examples and explanations, some in detail, of trade rules are provided. The book sketches events – carelessness, prejudice or special interests, arbitrary and false application of trade instruments and fraud – resulting in disappearance of various European electronics business segments.      

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“The book is rich with anecdotes, factual information, graphs, diagrams, pictures, and tables. … for those who rode the various ‘waves’ of EU electronic trade cases in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, this book may likely bring back colourful memories of the heydays of anti-dumping involving Japan, Korea, South-East Asia, and beyond. … In short, a thought-provoking and easy-to-read book containing a number of greatly entertaining stories. A strong buy.” (Folkert Graafsma, Journal of World Trade, Vol. 48 (4), August, 2014)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Marcel van Marion

About the author

van Marion, born in 1943, studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained his Master in 1969. He became economist of a Dutch international trade organisation of business. He joined a large electronics company in 1977 and became Vice-President for International Economic Relations. He earned his PhD in economic at the University of Groningen in 1992, founded several European industry associations and acted in their board or served as president. In 1999 he started a private trade policy counselling practice.

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