Open AccessFree Trade or Protection: A Literature Review on Trade Barriers
Author(s) -
Jing Ma,
Yanbin Lü
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
research in world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-399X
pISSN - 1923-3981
DOI - 10.5430/rwe.v2n1p69
Subject(s) - international trade , economics , trade barrier , free trade , international economics , business
The purpose of this paper is to, firstly explain the reason of international trade according to recent theories; secondly, collect several sorts of opinions about free trade and protectionism referring to relevant literatures; thirdly describe export barriers in different aspects, such as natural barriers and artificial barriers; lastly from trade regulation perspective introduce WTO as a tool of promoting international trade