Abstract
One of the earliest contributions to the study of non-tariff barriers to visible trade was a book entitled The Invisible Tariff.1 The term “non-tariff barriers”, now in common usage, refers to policies and practices which either by design or accident protect or favour domestic producers vis-à-vis foreign suppliers — at the expense of domestic consumers and taxpayers. Some of them are not barriers, but serve instead to encourage exports, which is why economic purists prefer the term “non-tariff distortions” or “non-tariff interventions”.2 But this is by the way. The barriers to, or constraints on, international trade in what are called “invisibles” are of a non-tariff character. The temptation to call this volume Invisible Barriers to Invisible Trade was thus too great.
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Percy Bidwell, The Invisible Tariff ( New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1939 ).
Geoffrey Denton and Seamus O’Cleireacain, Subsidy Issues in International Commerce, Thames Essay No. 5 (London: Trade Policy Research Centre, 1972 ), pp. 2–4.
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Griffiths, B. (1975). Nature and Importance of Trade in Invisibles. In: Invisible Barriers to Invisible Trade. Trade Policy Research Centre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02655-5_1
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