WTO trade negotiations on market access follow the MFN treatment. However, an increasing share of trade falls under preferential regimes. For agriculture, trade liberalization analyses have showed that the impact on developing countries (DC) is not uniform, partly from omitting preferences. In...

Domestic food and agricultural policies of individual importing and exporting countries signicifantly affect international trade in grains This case study focuses on Venezuela's import demand for sorghum It investigates the tradeoffs in a country's decision to import or to produce feed grains in...

This paper examines how conventional export taxes and quotas can be modified to make them less market-distorting, and thereby less welfare-diminishing. The modified policies achieve the same economic objectives of the tax or quota, such as reducing the domestic price of the exported good,...