The sixth annual European Research Workshop on International Trade (ERWIT) was held in Rotterdam on 10/15 June. The workshop was organized by Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and L Alan Winters, Professor of Economics and Head of Department at the University of Birmingham, Co-Directors of CEPR's International Trade programme, and Jean-Marie Viaene, Professor of Economics at Erasmus Universiteit. Financial support was provided by the Economics Faculty and the Trustfonds of Erasmus Universiteit, the Tinbergen Institute, the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Further financial assistance from the Ford Foundation as part of its support to CEPR's research initiative on `Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy' is gratefully acknowledged. The following papers were presented:

`Procompetitive Gains from Trade and Comparative Advantage', Albert G Schweinberger (Universität Konstanz)

`Comparative Advantage Under Oligopoly', Tito Cordella and Jean J Gabszewicz (Université Catholique de Louvain)

`Producer Services, Comparative Advantage and International Trade Patterns', Charles van Marrewijk, Joachim Stibora, Albert de Vaal and Jean-Marie Viaene (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

`Social Dumping and Market Equilibrium', Pedro Pita Barros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

`FDI and Technology in the EC', Damien Neven (Université de Liège, INSEAD and CEPR) and Georges Siotis (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

`Dynamic Effects of Tariff Liberalization: An Intertemporal CGE Approach', Christian Keuschnigg (Institut für Höhere Studien, Wien) and Wilhelm Kohler (Universität Essen)

`Trade Liberalization, Privatization, and Restructuring in Economies in Transition', Arye L Hillman (Bar-Ilan University), Manuel Hinds and Branko Milanovic (World Bank) and Heinrich Ursprung (Universität Konstanz)

`Environmental Regulation, Industrial Competitiveness and Capital Flight', Sweder van Wijnbergen (Universiteit van Amsterdam and CEPR)

`Environmental Policy and Intra-Industry Trade', Michael Rauscher (Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, and CEPR)

`Export Strategy, Capacity Constraint and Equilibrium Unemployment', Philippe Montfort (Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis)

`Equalizing Exchange: Trade Liberalization and Income Convergence', Dani Ben-David (Ben-Gurion University and CEPR)

`The Provision of Public Export Insurance for a Small Open Economy', Gerda Dewit (Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Leuven)

`Strategic and Rent Extracting Tariffs in the Presence of Persuasive Advertising', Dermot Leahy (University College Dublin)

`Endogenous Market Segmentation', Henrik Horn, Harald Lang and Stefan Lundgren (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm)