Alfred Eckes, a former chairman and commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission, offers an inside look at trade administration during the 1980s. During that difficult decade, hundreds of American firms sought relief from surging and unfairly traded imports. The book, based on his personal diaries, shows how a bipartisan group of commissioners battled an uncompromising protectionist and rigid deregulators. They sought to undermine the trade remedy process, carefully crafted by Congress and the Executive to implement America's international agreements, and to assure a fair hearing for industries and workers claiming import-related injury.