00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.866294 CaOODSP 20221107162019 cr ||||||||||| 181220s1988 oncd||| o f000 0 eng d 066012744X CaOODSP eng n-cn--- EC22-150/1988E-PDF EC22-150/1988E Managing adjustment [electronic resource] : policies for trade-sensitive industries : a statement / by the Economic Council of Canada. Policies for trade-sensitive industries Ottawa : Economic Council of Canada, c1988. x, 42 p. : charts. Digitized edition from print [produced by the Publishing and Depository Services Directorate]. Includes bibliographic references. "The postwar period has been marked by significant liberalization and expansion of world trade. This development has been greatly facilitated by the General Agreement on Tariffsand Trade, which has served as the instrument for liberalizing the rules governing international trade. Thus tariffs on manufactured trade fell, on average, from 40 per cent in 1947 to between 5 and 6 per cent in 1987. The growth and liberalization of trade have not been without problems, however. One of those problems has been the difficulty occasionally experienced by workers, firms, industries, regions, and/or governments in adjusting to increased openness to trade"--Foreword, p. ix. gccst International trade gccst Industry Economic Council of Canada. PDF 6.14 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/ecc/EC22-150-1988-eng.pdf