ABSTRACT
External constraints or other policies cover almost all the trade of the seven countries examined here, and each faces the indirect consequences of constraints and preferences on the exports of other countries. In terms of measurable controls on individual commodities, Bangladesh is probably the worst affected, although closely followed by Mauritius and Jamaica. But the analysis of how the trading structure has evolved even in an apparently less controlled country like Malaysia shows that the actual impact of controls goes beyond the direct effects to the role of the external sector, and attitudes to it, in each country. The results for individual countries thus confirm those found in Chapter 7.
