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  • Merger Guidelines

    In the United States For information about Merger Guidelines in the context of international trade, click here

  • Excess Capacity

    Excess Capacity and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Excess Capacity: Occurs when a firm or industry is operating below cost-minimizing levels of output. "Permanent excess capacity" is […]

  • Infant Industry

    An industry that is not fully developed in a given country, resulting in a high susceptibility to foreign competition. This condition is often particularly acute in the case of basic industries, such as steel, where the expansion of the industry locally is important to economic development, but econ…

  • Assembly Service

    A service provided by some common carriers whereby small lots of cargo bound for a single consignee are shipped to the carrier's terminal to be aggregated into a single shipment. When a predetermined volume of cargo has been amassed, it is shipped as a unit to the consignee. This type of servic…

  • Legal Education future

    “THE FUTURE OF LEGAL Education “, by John Mayer(1) “All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilised life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made regularity in the economy…in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals…

  • Cartel

    Summary of Cartel An alliance among firms in the same line of business aimed at controlling or dominating their field on an international basis.(Main Author: William J. Miller) Definition of Cartel In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Cartel : […]

  • Refugee

    Who Becomes a Refugee? Introduction to Refugee People leave their home countries for many reasons. Sometimes they are fleeing poverty, or they hope to find a better life in another place. People who migrate for economic reasons, however, are not considered refugees. Yet economic migrants […]

  • Refugee

    Who Becomes a Refugee? Introduction to Refugee People leave their home countries for many reasons. Sometimes they are fleeing poverty, or they hope to find a better life in another place. People who migrate for economic reasons, however, are not considered refugees. Yet economic migrants […]

  • Trade Policy

    Diplomacy and International Trade (London, 1994) "Today, the generally accepted view (at least on the part of most states) is that trade, and particularly free trade, is good, notwithstanding the conflicts (and bouts of protectionism) that arise between individual states and between […]

  • Structural Funds

    Meaning of Structural funds Here is a very short concept of structural funds in the European Union framework: The collective name given to four (or perhaps more properly five) funds set up to assist underdeveloped, declining or economically stagnant regions of the EU The European Regional […]

  • Structural Funds

    Meaning of Structural funds Here is a very short concept of structural funds in the European Union framework: The collective name given to four (or perhaps more properly five) funds set up to assist underdeveloped, declining or economically stagnant regions of the EU The European Regional […]

  • SUBSIDIARITY

    SUBSIDIARITY Although now one of the core terms in Catholic social thought, to expect for the term subsidiarity any substantive content or any specific rule for its application would be a case of misplaced concreteness. The term captures the aspiration that polities and administrations have responsibilities for “distributive justice” in ways that promote “social” or…

  • Cooperative Purchasing

    Literature Review on (Procurement) Cooperative Purchasing In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Alex Sekwat offers the following summary about the topic of (Procurement) Cooperative Purchasing: Cooperative purchasing promotes sound administrative values, […]

  • Oceans

    Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (“ICP”) in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (“icp”): The United States participated in the 14th meeting of the Informal […]

  • Oceans

    Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (“ICP”) in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (“icp”): The United States participated in the 14th meeting of the Informal […]