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Naoi, Megumi. and Hornung, Willam. "Navigating a Two-Way Street: Global Trade Regimes and Domestic Choice of Trade Policy Instruments in Japan,1980-2001" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mar 29, 2004 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p73302_index.html>

Naoi, M. and Hornung, W. A. , 2004-03-29 "Navigating a Two-Way Street: Global Trade Regimes and Domestic Choice of Trade Policy Instruments in Japan,1980-2001" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p73302_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: While the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have set uniform conditions under which member states are allowed to adopt protection measures, such as safeguard and anti-dumping measures, the states’ use of these provisions significantly differs among OECD countries. In particular, Japan’s application of these measures deviates substantially from other advanced economies in three respects: (1) the infrequency with which it uses GATT/WTO protectionist provisions; (2) regional biases in the targets of these measures; and (3) its increasing recourse to safeguard provisions instead of anti-dumping measures after 1995. In contrast to dominant claims that a government resorts to international rules for the purpose of enhancing its credibility or to shift blame in order to appease domestic interest groups, I argue that the pattern of Japan’s choice of one policy instrument over another can be explained by different distributional implications of the three policy instruments. This paper introduces a new data set on Japan’s trade policy choices between 1980 and 2001. The data set covers 103 commodity cases that (1) suffered from a rise of imports and (2) were granted one of three protectionist instruments by the Japanese government—domestic subsidies, voluntary export restraints and the GATT/WTO legal protectionist measures. The data set is analyzed using a conditional logit framework. Conditional logit allows for a government’s utility to vary not only across the commodity cases and time periods, but also across the three policy alternatives. The results of the conditional logit estimation support the distributional hypothesis.

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Navigating a Two-Way Street: Global Trade Regimes and Domestic Choice of Trade Policy Instruments in Japan,1980-2001