Dispute Settlement: The Chicken War

1964 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
International Forum ◽  
The Common ◽  
Trade War ◽  
Time Basis

“Chicken War” is a quip for a long-festering controversy that in the summer of 1963 bristled with menace of a possible trade war between the United States and the European Economic Community. Actually, no outbreak of hostilities eventuated; for, in good time, basis for a détente was found. This entailed resort to a dispute-resolution machinery, made possible because of the existence of an organized international forum in which countries have gained experience in the tasks of harmonizing trade interests. How the controversy started, burgeoned and was disposed of illustrates the complications arising from the creation of the Common Market and the ways devised for coping with these and other complications afflicting international trade.

Monnet and the Action Committee: The Formative Period of the European Communities

1965 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Yondorf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Small Group ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Action Committee ◽  
The Common ◽  
Energy Community

The Community of the Six owes its origin and continued success largely to the inventiveness and political astuteness of a small group of leaders, generally associated with Jean Monnet (France) and, from 1956 on, the Action Committee for the United States of Europe. The purpose of this article is to assess the strategy of Monnet and his associates and their influence on the formation and development of the three European Communities: the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), and the European Economic Community (EEC) or the Common Market.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 889-889 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic

The 1960–1961 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Tariff Conference was brought to a conclusion on July 16, 1962. The decision to hold the 1960–1961 conference was taken in May 1959, following a proposal of the United States that such a conference should be held. Approximately 4,400 tariff concessions were negotiated at the conference. There were three separate elements in the 1960–1961 conference: 1) renegotiations with the European Economic Community (EEC); 2) the “Dillon” or general round of negotiations; and 3) negotiations in accordance with the relevant provisions of the General Agreement with countries wishing to accede to GATT.

U.S.-Canada Free Trade: What's in It for the U.S.?

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Weintraub
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Gross National Product ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Major Trading Partner ◽  
The U.S

Trade policy has played a larger role in the internal and international relations of Canada than of the United States, certainly in the last half century. There are many reasons for this: The Canadian economy is more open than that of the United States (e.g., merchandise exports as a percentage of gross national product were 30% in Canada and 7% in the United States in 1982); the United States is far more dominant in Canada's trade than any single country or group of countries such as the European Economic Community is in U.S. trade (in recent years about 70% of Canada's exports have been sent to the United States and more than 70% of its imports came from the United States; for the United States, about 15% of its exports in recent years went to Canada, its major trading partner, and between 15% and 20% of its imports have come from Canada); and with this double dependence on trade and on a single market, a selfinterested foreign policy must concentrate on trade policy (Grey, 1981: 3-4).

Economic Interdependence and Foreign Policy in the Seventies

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Past

A Casual reading of contemporary news reports suggests that during the past decade economic issues have taken on growing importance in the relations of non-Communist developed countries. The disputes between the United States and Japan over textiles, between the United States and the European Economic Community over agricultural trade, and between France and Germany over currency alignments come readily to mind. It is perhaps symbolic of the enormous success of early postwar foreign policy that issues no graver than these play such a prominent part in relations among countries that, earlier in the century, were sporadically at each other's throats.

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