韩国消费者政策的现状及发展方向

当前国际贸易正在快速发展向无限竞争时代。在面对和克服对外经济贸易环境的变化与金融危机的过程当中,韩国国内产业发生着相应调整,消费者主权也得到了显著增强。韩国消费者政策,正从过去的单纯对消费者损害进行救济的层次,逐渐向果断解除防碍消费者自由选择的原有的法律上和产业结构上的限制,建立如制造物责任制度等消费者安全制度、加强对商品消费者的信息提供服务、支持２１世纪型先进消费者教育等的方向发展。     

发展中国家竞争政策中的消费者保护

本文认为,发展中国家竞争政策中的消费者保护有其特定的含义,它不仅包括通过维护和促进竞争提高消费者福利水平的内容,还包括防范与禁止厂商欺诈行为以保护消费者合法权益及运用直接价格干预的方法保护低收入个人消费者的内容.文章提出,发展中国家的竞争政策应专注于促进竞争、提高效率、增进消费者福利,并通过政策目标和竞争例外范围的设定与其他经济和社会政策相互协调,解决消费者权益保护和低收入人群保护的问题,避免竞争政策执行过程中因目标和标准冲突而造成的混乱和低效率.     

日本的竞争政策分析

日本的竞争政策分析“竞争政策比较研究”课题组在步入社会主义市场经济新体制的进程中,竞争政策的健全和完善无疑具有举足轻重的地位。一个好的竞争政策,不仅会起到优化市场秩序、促进竞争,最终达到微观上主体行为合理,宏观上资源配置逼近最优配置的作用,而且会消除...     

日本新政策影响中国出口

<正> 近日从中国驻日大使馆商务处了解到,日本今年4月起修改实施的普惠制取消了3种中国产品的普惠资格,增加了许多新的项目,这一调整将对中国出口企业产生重要影响。 对价值1.4亿美元的中国产品     

日本服务贸易的发展及启示

近些年，日本服务贸易飞速发展，其服务贸易进出口额均进入世界前列。日本在发展服务贸易过程中有很多成功经验和教训值得我国借鉴和总结。本文通过对日本服务贸易发展状况的分析，得出日本发展服务贸易的经验和不足，并以此作为我国发展服务业的启示。     

美国消费信贷的经验分析与我国消费信贷市场的发展

本文通过对美国和我国消费信贷市场的比较分析,归纳我国消费信贷市场发展的经验得失,在此基础上,提出发展我国消费信贷市场的政策建议。     

Consumer Law and Policy in Ghana

This paper presents a picture of the landscape of consumer law and policy in Ghana and reviews the scope of protection of consumer interests with specific regard to product safety and liability, consumer sales, and telecommunication services. It assesses the legislative and policy framework on consumer contracts, product safety, and unfair commercial practices; discusses the role of national agencies in enforcing safety standards; and highlights some critical consumer issues in telecommunications service delivery. The paper examines the regulatory framework on other consumer issues such as advertising, labelling, and marketing of consumer products; terms and conditions of consumer contracts; and after sales services including the enforcement of guarantees, warranties, refund, and return policies. The paper also discusses the extent of external influence on the development of consumer law and policy in Ghana and reviews the level of interaction with other legal systems and supranational bodies in the three focal areas. The contribution also explores areas of Ghana’s consumer protection framework which could benefit from guidance from the EU transnational model on consumer protection and makes recommendations for the enhancement of the emerging legislative and policy regime on consumer protection in Ghana.     

Consumer Law and Policy in Kenya

This contribution seeks to examine the consumer protection law and policy in Kenya with a view to understand how consumer issues, such as product safety and product liability, are addressed as well as the remedies for defective goods. It also seeks to understand the available provisions on the safety standards of consumer products, such as mobile phones, by highlighting the consumer issues that arise for mobile phone users with particular reference to the services provided by mobile network operators (MNOs) – i.e., the financial services and products – and how the consumer protection regime has addressed them. It will conclude by examining how the Kenyan consumer law has manifested itself, either by its influence on other states’ consumer laws and policies or the way(s) in which its own laws have been influenced by foreign and supranational consumer laws. References will be made with regard to the influence by the European Commission (EC) Product Safety Directive, the EC Product Liability Directive, the EC Consumer Sales Directive and the EC Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. Furthermore, this contribution will highlight the challenges encountered with respect to the achievement of a consumer protection regime in Kenya, as a result of the fragmentation of the law and policies.     

消费者权益的国际私法保护初探

随着全球化趋势的不断增强,各国进一步全方位地融人世界统一大市场,产品、资本和劳动力的跨国流动日趋频繁.不但各国国内企业要面对进口商品和服务的激烈竞争,各国消费者也将直面它所带来的一系列问题,涉外消费纠纷呈明显增加趋势.因而以解决国际民商事法律冲突为己任的国际私法,在国际消费纠纷的处理中起着越来越重要的作用.     

我国政策性银行发展问题研究

随着中国加入世界贸易组织和市场经济体制的逐步建立,金融体制正在加大改革力度,政策性银行正面临新的挑战。政策性银行要得到发展,必须开辟新的业务领域和功能,转变政策性资金配置目标的侧重点,摆正政策性银行在我国金融组织构架中的位置,调整有关法规并提高其科学性,改善财政补贴机制,尽快化解潜在风险。     

日本对WTO新的谈判的一些考虑

<正> 近日,《日本经济新闻》报道了日本对世贸组织(WTO)新的谈判的一些考虑。在新的磋商中,日本谈判战略的课题是如何协调好在完善贸易规则方面的攻势和在农业领域的守势,做好发展中国家的争取工作是其战略的关键。日本最积极地主张新的磋商中须包括一揽子内容。日本一直认为,为弥补双边或区域性自由贸易协定的不足,必须强化多边贸易规则,建立稳定的贸易和投资环境。但在农业谈判中,日本希望能够避免在形势不利的状态下继续孤军作战。为此,在新的磋商中日本将与同样     

Alternative Regulatory Cases Challenging Consumer Policy

By means of the concept of postmodern politics, we provide insights into how alternative regulation is challenging consumer policy. New actors, new forms of interaction, and new goals are emerging alongside established forms of consumer policy. In particular, we examine two alternative regulatory cases: trust marks and consumer-generated information systems. They both exemplify alternative regulation of electronic commerce, which has facilitated regulatory innovation for over a decade. On the basis of our analysis, we suggest that governmental consumer policy cannot imitate the alternative regulatory solutions. We also encourage governmental actors to consider building bridges to consumer networks. This would broaden the scope of consumer policy and be in line with the modes of operation of governmental actors. Consumers are themselves contributing to this rethinking of governmental consumer policy. By networking, consumers provide each other with empowering information on consumption. Doing so on the massive scale enabled by information and communication technologies, they are challenging conventional consumer policy, which can no longer address consumer needs as it could in the pre-Internet days. New issues are emerging for consumer policy to address, and networked consumers are already contributing to policy.