Trade Regulations and Commercial Policy of the United Kingdom

Abstract

THIS book is a portion of the British contribution to a study of international trade regulations and commercial policy which was initiated at Geneva in 1938, and which was designed to give a comprehensive picture of the major changes in the methods of control of world trade since the conclusion of the War of 1914-18. The outbreak of the present War has interfered with the completion of the project as originally conceived ; but it has been thought desirable to publish the descriptive material now, leaving certain statistical studies and consideration of the economic issues along with an examination of the changing international economic position of the United Kingdom for discussion in a later volume. This was undoubtedly a wise decision ; for in the present work we have, as the chairman of the Council of Management of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research remarks in his preface, a technical descriptive study which provides a convenient and more detailed picture than has hitherto been available of the development of British commercial policy, and particularly of Protectionism in all its forms, up to the end of 1938.

Trade Regulations and Commercial Policy of the United Kingdom

By the Research Staff of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. (National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Economic and Social Studies No. 3.) Pp. x + 275. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943.) 15s. net.