Part 1 A review of the legal developments in the field of the community's external relations: the completion of the internal versus the incomplete common commercial policy, Francis G. Jacobs; the new face of the community's external relations - recent developments on certain controversial issues, Stratos V. Konstadinidis; community association agreements - from the sixties to the nineties, Frank S. Benyon. Part 2 The European Community and the GATT (WTO): the European Union's position in the Uruguay round negotiations, Karl F. Falkenberg; participation of the European communities in the World Trade Organization, Mary E. Footer; the general agreement on trade in services and community law, Piet Eeckhout. Part 3 The "Europe Agreements": a legal analysis of the community's association agreements with central and eastern European countries - general framework, accession objectives and trade liberalization, Marc Maresceau; the new associations - substantive issues of the Europe agreements with the central and eastern European states, Marise Cremona. Part 4 The Lome conventions: Lome IV - a blueprint for the future or a relic of the past?, Joseph A. McMahon; the political economy of the Lome conventions, Kwabena Donkor. Part 5 The economic and trade relations between the EU and the USA and Japan: the EU's commercial relations with the US and Japan, Astrid Schomaker; an American view of the EC single market, Steve Blodgett; the community's commercial relations with Japan - some comments, Takaaki Kojima; setting up and operating in Japan - the impact of "administrative guidance" and non-tariff barriers on European companies, Richard Brailsford.