This study reports the result of a world-wide survey showing favorable interest in a peanut futures contract (20 metric tons). A US exchange was preferred with possible delivery points in Savannah and Rotterdam. Hedging contracts were estimated to be 52,000 contracts annually with speculative...

Enlargement of the European Community (EC), recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and structural policy changes in the Community have generated economic conditions whose combined long-term effect will be a decrease in the demand for US agricultural exports to the EC. Factors...

The fundamental contradictions between the United States and the European Community in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations lie in the foundations of their respective agricultural policies. Their proposals call for a reduction of agricultural price supports, tariffication of...

The decision-making process in the European Community was analyzed using a model of the political economy of agricultural policy making within a public choice framework. The November 1989 session of the Agriculture Council was used to illustrate Community institutions as a locus of bargain and...