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Protection of the German Textile Industry

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Public Assistance to Industry

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This paper reviews developments in West Germany’s textile and clothing industries, trends in trade, and some characteristics of trade restrictions; finally, it compares the Federal Republic’s textile and clothing imports from low-price sources with those of other OECD countries.

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Notes and References

  1. For the discussion in the Federal Republic of Germany, see F. Aumann, U. Einhoff, E. Heimstädter, D. Isselhorst, “Entwicklungsstrategie und Faktorintensität. Eine Stellungnahme zu neueren Untersuchungen des Institute für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel”, Zeitschrift für Allegmeine und Textile Marktwirtschaft, Teil 2, Munster, 1972

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  2. E.-M. Scharrer, Die Chancen der Textil-und Bekleidungsindustrie in hochentwickelten Ländern, Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge No. 26, Kiel, 1972.

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  3. Also see G. Fels, Die Textilindustrie und das Theorem der komparativen Kosten. Eine Erwiderung, Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge No. 26, Kiel, 1972.

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  4. Also see G. Fels, Die Textilindustrie Neu et al., Protektion und Branchenstruktur der westdeutschen Wirtschaft, Kieler Studien No. 123 (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), for the Kiel Institute of World Economics, 1973).

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  5. For the necessary assumptions, the applied formulae and the basic data see Hans H. Glisman and Axel Neu, “Towards New Agreements on International Trade Liberalisation — Methods and Examples of Measuring Non-tariff Trade Barriers”, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 107, Kiel, 1971, pp. 235–71.

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  1. Axel D. Neu
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Oxford, UK

    W. M. Corden (Nuffield Reader in International Economics) (Nuffield Reader in International Economics)

  2. Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Germany

    Gerhard Fels (Head of the Department of Structural Change and Economic Growth, Professor of Economics) (Head of the Department of Structural Change and Economic Growth, Professor of Economics)

  3. University of Kiel, Germany

    Gerhard Fels (Head of the Department of Structural Change and Economic Growth, Professor of Economics) (Head of the Department of Structural Change and Economic Growth, Professor of Economics)

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© 1976 Trade Policy Research Centre and Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel

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Neu, A.D. (1976). Protection of the German Textile Industry. In: Corden, W.M., Fels, G. (eds) Public Assistance to Industry. Trade Policy Research Centre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02761-3_6

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