RE: Query onTrade

["Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ali wrote:


> I am presently researching Trade issues. I recall Bill
> Tabb in a monthly review article mentioning that the
> increase in global trade is due to inter-company
> trade. Maybe my memory is not all that clear on that
> but are there data and measurement sources for this.
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Lawrence Krause <http://www-irps.ucsd.edu/irps/expertsheets/sh-krause.html>
is cited in "One World Ready or Not" by William Greider as one of the
leading trade stat. fanatics on the above issue. According to Krause, only
15% of global trade is conducted in "free market" circumstances, 40% is
intrafirm trade. Greider does not really state how much of it is inter-firm
trade. Krause' article is in Journal of Asian Economics volume 3 # 2[1992]


Ian