Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Archival References -- Introduction -- A PERSPECTIVE ON BRITISH IMPORT CONTROLS -- QUANTITATIVE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS AND THE MODERN STATE -- BRITISH COMMERCIAL POLICY AND THE OEEC TRADE LIBERALISATION PROGRAMME, 1949 51 -- TAKING THE LEAD IN EUROPE The international politics of import controls, 1952 6 -- MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF QUANTITATIVE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS -- THE EFFECT OF IMPORT CONTROLS ON BRITISH MANUFACTURING -- Examination of Scott's calculations of the value of imports of food and raw materials excluded by quantitative restrictions, 1946 9 -- Corden's estimate of import savings in the year 1952 attributable to emergency quantitative controls imposed in November 1951 and March 1952, and our estimate of total savings for the year 1953 -- Government estimate of the probable value of additional imports in 1954 in the absence of quantitative restrictions -- A survey of the operation of import quotas and other import restriction regimes on United Kingdom manufacturing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of Official Sources -- Index.