The Contemporary Evolution of Intermodal and International Transport Regulation under the Interstate Commerce Act

n our era of rapidly diminishing impediments to the free flow of capital, goods, technology, and services between nations, transnational commercial activity has become extremely important to our national economy. New frontiers are being broken as raw materials and manufactured products move more freely between nations which have heretofore shared little in culture, history, religion, race, or economic and political philosophy. Certainly, governmental initiatives designed to eliminate trade inhibitions are responsible for much of this growth. Tariff walls are crumbling.

The world economy is prospering. The interdependencies that flourish between members of the world community as a result of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements enhance the possibility of achieving long-term political stability, economic growth, and global peace. It has become the position of the United States that increased international economic cooperation will inevitably lead to increased political toleration and peaceful coexistence.