Abstract
The seventies can be seen as the decade where the ingenuity of the human mind knew no bounds to the invention of new non-tariff barriers, circumventing the original GATT rules. Where has this neoprotectionism led so far and what is the outlook for the future?
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Hürni, B.S. Restrictions on international competition through government measures. Intereconomics 18, 78–83 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928489
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