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Customs union theory is a new sector of the theory of tariffs. Born in 1950, it is now a lusty, if somewhat untidy, child. One book gave it life, Viner’s The Customs Union Issue. It has received later stimulus from the writings of Meade, Lipsey and others.1
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J. Viner, The Most Favoured Nations Clause’, International Economics ( Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1951 ), p. 102.
G. Haberler, The Political Economy of Regional or Continental Blocs’, in Seymour Harris, ed., Postwar Economic Problems (New York, 1943 ), p. 344.
C. A. Cooper and B. F. Massell, A New Look at Customs Union Theory’, EJ (December 1965).
J. Vanek, International Trade: Theory and Economic Policy ( Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, 1962 ), pp. 346–59.
A. Lamfalussy, ‘Europe’s Progress: Due to Common Market’, Lloyds Bank Review, October 1961.
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Scammell, W.M. (1974). The Theory of Customs Unions. In: International Trade and Payments. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01555-9_8
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