production and dairy processing and policies affecting them. We next describe the import regime and trade flows in dairy products …-term prospects of various segments of the industry. The paper concludes with policy recommendations of how to reform the Japanese …

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the … agricultural and food sectors. We limit the analysis to sanitary, phytosanitary, and technical regulations that can have an impact … on trade and to methods that provide some quantitative estimates of the impact of such barriers on market equilibrium …

This background paper is devoted to US sugar policy. A first section describes the features and economics of the US … sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the US sugar program; and a final section … program is becoming unsustainable because sugar imports are progressively creeping into the US market through regional trade …

, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization. Under the North American Free Trade … stock accumulation and accommodate further trade liberalization under a new World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement or … future bilateral trade agreements. Our analysis of recent WTO proposals suggests that a WTO agreement is unlikely to impose …

We analyze the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-usechange, food supply and prices, and … and pasture lands in a few countries. The expansion ofbiofuels would cause a moderate decrease in world food supply and …