| The thesis examines the trade remedy laws and practice of the United States, Canada, and the European Union relating to the Newly Liberalizing Countries (NLCs) of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and China. It is demonstrated in this thesis that, although several years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and significant market-oriented reforms have been adopted in the NLCs, western countries have remained largely at impasse with respect to reforming their discriminatory trade remedies concerning imports from the NLCs. The thesis argues that it is imperative for the western countries to reform trade remedy laws both domestically and internationally in order to integrate the NLCs fully into the world trading system, and concludes with specific proposals. |
