How do Trade Related Policy Issues Become the Subject of Commercial Diplomacy?
Before exploring the analytical questions a commercial diplomat must ask, we should examine how a policy issue becomes the target of commercial diplomacy. The initial impetus, more often than not, comes from an enterprise or industry most directly affected by a policy action or government regulation. They can make a policy measure the focus of commercial diplomacy by raising it as a trade related policy issue with foreign decision makers, or by enlisting the advocacy support of lobbyists, politicians, legislators and home government officials. Of course, neither the home government nor the foreign government will accept all trade related policy issues raised by enterprises as legitimate issue for government-to-government discussions or negotiations. In order to persuade government officials to involve themselves in any effort to address a trade related policy issue, commercial diplomats representing the enterprise have to be able to demonstrate (a) that the commercial problem they have
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