Trade as an agent of environmental regulations? - with Gary Winslett
During the 1970s, the European car industry became increasingly international and more frustrated by intra-European trade barriers. After Ford began profitably selling on the continent, other automakers followed suit; this served to create a continental vehicle market and made intra-regional regulatory barriers more important. While this was occurring, the European Community began to regulate automobiles with an eye toward liberalizing the continental market in vehicles. Gary Winslett explores some of the tensions between trade liberalization and a quest for a pan-European environmental regulation in the 1970s and 1980s. (Photo credit: "Mercedes Benz in Karlovy Vary," Fortepan database, nr. 51313, www.fortepan.hu)