Industry, Services and Agriculture in the 1990s: The United States Faces a United Europe

In 1986 the 12 members of the European Community began designing and implementing an ambitious plan for regional integration. This Single Market Plan called for European market barriers to fall, a unified market of over 320 million consumers to emerge, goods and capital to flow across national borders, businesses to benefit from new market opportunities, and other dramatic economic gains to be achieved. But restrictive trade practices and protective enclaves elude the integration process, and other troubling issues remain. They are discussed in this volume by European and American authors.