Report on United States Barriers to Trade and Investment, 2000

A comprehensive inventory of impediments for European industry & investors gaining access to U.S. markets & carrying out economic operations within them. This 16th annual European Commission (EU) report provides an inventory of obstacles that EU exporters & investors encounter in the U.S. Chapters: general features of U.S. trade policy; tariff barriers (applied tariff barriers; the Information Technology Agreement); non-tariff barriers (custom procedures; levies & charges, etc.); investment related measures (direct foreign invest. limitations; tax discrimination); intellectual property rights (copyright; patents, etc.); & services (communications; financial; transport, etc.).