A National Policy for Organized Free Trade

Michael W. Hodin

1. US Foreign Trade Decision-Making for Industrial Sectors 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Foreign Trade Policy and the International Economic System: Independent Variables 1.3. A Framework for Decision-Making Analysis 1.4. An Approach for US Foreign Trade Policy: Decision-Making in Industrial Sectors 2. Parameters for an Administration Position 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Commitment to the MTN – The Political Climate 2.3. Domestic Legal Framework for the Operation of International Trade – The Legal Claims 2.4. Market Sharing – The Ideological Background 3. International Political Economy 3.1. The Global Political Economy of Steel 3.2. Europe 3.3. Japan 3.4. Third World 4. Developing a Foreign Trade Policy for Steel 4.1. Introduction 4.2. A Matter of Foreign Trade Policy 4.3. The Structural Crisis and An Import Problem 4.4. Political Crisis – The Youngstown Effect 5. The Trigger Price System 6. International Steel Agreement 7. Conclusions