We analyze the effects of international market opening in the context of a variety of common agricultural commodity programs. We show that direct payments programs are more compatible and price support policies are less compatible removal of border barriers. The second half of the paper develops...

Trade policy has been one of the most important issues in agricultural economics for more than 200 years. Our focus here is on evaluating relatively recent contributions to the understanding of agricultural trade policy and trade agreements. We present some background concerning trade policies...