Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite …

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite …

The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this … goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the distortions in China's agricultural sector … at a time immediately prior to the nation's accession to WTO. Second, we seek to assess how well integrated China …

The overall goal of our paper is to explore this question of how China's policy will likely respond as the nation … enters the WTO. Specifically, we will have three objectives. First, we briefly review China's existing agriculture policy and … past performance of China's agriculture and how it has changed during the past 20 years of reform. Next, we examine the …

This paper assesses the implications of China's trade and domestic policies for incentives to producers in China. It … incentives have been reduced. In the early 1980s, on average, China's domestic prices were far below international prices. There … narrowed the gap between world and China farmgate prices. By the mid-2000s, China's agriculture was operating with only small …