By Alan O. Sykes
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S. S. government to ban such tuna imports (both direct imports from the countries in which the tuna is caught and indirect imports shipped via third countries). S. environmental community. " Those holding such views reject untrammeled political sovereignty for nationstates in deference to universal or non-national values. They wish to constrain the exercise of individual nations' sovereignties through international negotiations or, if necessary, by even stronger intervention. Page xxi The Management of International Convergence In areas in which arbitrage pressures and cross-border spillovers are weak and psychological or political externalities are largely absent, national governments may encounter few problems with deeper integration.
National autonomy defines a situation at one end of the continuum in which national governments make decentralized decisions with little or no consultation and no explicit cooperation. This response represents political sovereignty at its strongest, undiluted by any international management of convergence. Mutual recognition, like national autonomy, presumes decentralized decisions by national governments and relies on market competition to guide the process of international convergence. Mutual recognition, however, entails exchanges of information and consultations among governments to constrain the formation of national regulations and policies.
In this book, Alan O. Sykes analyzes "technical barriers" to international trade in goods. These include impediments to trade created by divergent national product standards and regulations, and by the systems that trading nations use to verify conformity with applicable standards and regulations. He traces the history of the problem and sets out the available empirical evidence on its importance. He then uses economic theory to suggest when differences in standards and regulations may be desirable or undesirable and explains how an ideal conformity assessment system should operate.