对外贸易政策是一国政府为了实现保护本国市场、扩大商品出口、积累资本和技术等目的而制定的有关贸易的方针、法规及措施,它决定着一国的关税政策、非关税政策、进出口政策和国别政策等。美国从一个落后的殖民地发展成为今天的世界贸易大国和贸易强国,其对外贸易政策所发挥的 Foreign trade policy is a trade-related guideline, regulation and measure promulgated by a government for the purpose of protecting its domestic market, expanding its exports of goods, accumulating capital and technology. It determines a country’s tariff policy, non-tariff policy, import and export Policy and country policy. The United States has developed from a backward colony into a world power and a trading power today, and its foreign trade policy has played