Canadian Manufactured Exports
Canadian Manufactured Exports

Author: Donald James Daly

Publisher: IRPP

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780886450250

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This study provides important empirical background to the continuing debate on Canadian industrial policy and trade. The analysis is based on primary data derived from a unique survey of individual firms, both Canadian and foreign-owned, conducted early in the 1981-1982 recession. The main purpose of the study is to assess whether recent changes in tariffs, exchange rates, wage rates, and other factors in Canada and the world economy suggest the need for any significant modification in the earlier analyses and conclusions. The study presents prior evidence on costs, specialization, and trade; assesses current costs and productivity, and presents new information on how increased exports and specialization would affect cost performance and international competitiveness; examines non-production costs and other non-cost influences on specialization and export performance; and suggests strategies for the private sector to consider in order to survive in the changing trade environment of the 1980s.

Adjustment to International Competition
Adjustment to International Competition

Author: Richard E. Caves

Publisher: Economic

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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This report builds on 2 types of research on the structure and performance of Canadian manufacturing industries. One line addresses industries of domestic producers who serve the small Canadian market in competition with imports and is concerned with the productive efficiency of these industries but not with their short-run responses to international competition. The other line concerns the short-run sensitivity of responses of the manufacturing industries' prices, output, and employment levels to disturbances, focused on responses to domestic disturbances but not international. Using annual data on many individual industries, the study builds a statistical model of adjustments to changes in international competition such as changes in prices and varieties of importable goods, and in Canadian tariffs and the exchange rate. It tracks the effects of those changes on the selling prices of Canadian producers, quantities of imports and exports, and the key input decisions of employment and capital expenditures. It draws conclusions about these adjustment processes for the typical manufacturing industry but also shows how these adjustments vary among sectors and types of industries.

Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Trade Expansion Act of 1962

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 1462

ISBN-13:

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Includes. "Foreign Economic Policy for the 1960s," Report of Joint Economic Committee, Jan., 1962 (p. 101-154). "U.S. Import Duties on Agricultural Products. 1959," Revised, 1962. Agricultural Handbook No. 143, USDA (p. 329-478). "Import Restrictions Maintained by Countries of the European Economic Community by Several Other Countries That May Accede to the EEC, and by Japan" (p. 480-600), pt.1; Includes "Memorandum on H.R. 9900 of the 87th Congress, the "Trade Expansion Act of 1962,"' U.S. Tariff Commission, Apr. 9, 1962 (p. 905-1020), pt.2; Continuation of hearings on legislation to authorize the President to revise and reduce tariff and import restrictions, to authorize a trade adjustment assistance program, and to establish an Office of Special Representative for Trade Negotiations and an Interagency Trade Organization. Includes Joint Economic Committee Print "Trade Restraints in the Western Community with Tariff Comparisons and Selected Statistical Tables Pertinent to Foreign Economic Policy," 1961 (p. 1891-1957), pt.3; Includes "The European Common Market, Trade Expansion Act and California Agriculture," by Sidney Hoos (Mar. 2, 1962. p. 3699-3772), pt.6.