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International Trade Law

Vanderbilt University Law School

Journal

1989

Shipping laws

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Europe 1992 And The Rise Of The Pacific Rim: Do Changing World Trading Patterns Require A Change In United States Shipping Laws?, Andrew M. Danas Jan 1989

Europe 1992 And The Rise Of The Pacific Rim: Do Changing World Trading Patterns Require A Change In United States Shipping Laws?, Andrew M. Danas

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article analyzes the significant issues facing the Presidential Advisory Commission on Ocean Conferences in Ocean Shipping. This Commission will assess the success of the Shipping Act of 1984 and will report to Congress on the need for changes in the 1984 Act and in United States regulatory policy regarding international ocean common carriers. Mr. Danas recommends that the Commission carefully examine the antitrust-exempt conferences, which international ocean common carriers have been organizing for over one hundred years for the purpose of self-regulation and rationalization. Mr. Danas suggests that the review of the continued existence of the liner conference system …