Candido Garcia Molyneux is a lawyer with Coudert in Brussels.

• Theoretical background: states and globalisation; unfair trade instruments and protectionism. Part 1 United States trade policy: the domestic structures of United States trade policy - introduction, the domestic socio-economic structures of the United States, the constitutional framework of United States' trade policy, the executive and the independent agencies in the United States' international trade policy making process, the procedures to conclude international trade agreements; United States' unfair trade instruments as a reflection of its domestic sphere - the United States implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on research and development studies, United States' countervailing duty policy, Section 301 of the 1074 Trade Act - a metaphor of United States trade policy. Part 2 The European Union's common commercial policy: the domestic structures of the European Union, the constitutional structures of the common commercial policy 166, the Community's unfair trade instruments as a reflection of its domestic sphere, the Community's trade barriers regulation - an example of the common commercial policy, conclusions.

His exposition of the workings of the US government, the inefficiency of the separation of powers doctrine in relation to implementation of international agreements, the plurality and extreme liberalisation of the US' domestic economy are well researched and very useful.This book is impressively and thoroughly argued and the author succeeds in convincing of his convictions regarding the problems of globalisation and a state's inability to deal with the same. ...this book and the arguments made are significant and a worthwhile addition to the literature. Oanh Tran International Trade Business Law Annual February 2003