Exploring the political/economic determinants of trade protection, this study provides a range of information on key American industries and documents the process of seeking and conferring protection. Automobile, steel, semiconductor, lumber, wheat, and textile and clothing industries are included.

Acknowledgments Introduction Anne O. Krueger 1. Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry Douglas A. Irwin Comment: Andrew R. Dick 2. Steel Protection in the 1980s: The Waning Influence of Big Steel? Michael O. Moore Comment: William C. Lane Comment: James R. Markusen Comment: Michael H. Moskow 3. The Political Economy of U.S. Automobile Protection Douglas R. Nelson Comment: Anne E. Brunsdale, Randi Boorstein. Comment: Richard N. Cooper 4. The MFA Paradox: More Protection and More Trade? J. Michael Finger, Ann Harrison. Comment: Robert E. Baldwin Comment: I. M. Destler 5. Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy: Do They Matter to the Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute? Joseph P. Kalt Comment: Geoffrey Carliner 6. The Political Economy of U.S. Export Subsidies for Wheat Bruce L. Gardner Comment: Robert Paarlberg 7. Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement David Orden Comment: Robert Paarlberg 8. Differences in the Uses and Effects of Antidumping Law across Import Sources Robert W. Staiger and Frank A. Wolak Comment: Kala Krishna Comment: Anne E. Brunsdale, Keith B. Anderson. 9. Conclusions Anne O. Krueger Contributors Name Index Subject Index