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Shipping the Good Beef Out : EU Trade Liberalization to Mercosur Exports
Bureau, Jean-Christophe - 2009
The European Union tariff schedule includes a large number of specific and composite tariffs as well as many tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), which affect the composition of imports. By altering price ratios between products with different unit values, both can generate the typical Alchian-Allen...
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Implications of Domestic Support Disciplines for Further Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Walsh, Keith - 2015
combining domestic support cuts with market access and export competition disciplines show that the effect of import tariff …
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US-China Conflict in Global Trade Governance : The New Politics of Agricultural Subsidies at the WTO
Hopewell, Kristen - 2021
This article shows how China’s rise has radically altered the politics of one of the most prominent and controversial issues in the global trading system: agriculture subsidies. Agriculture subsidies depress global prices and undermine the competitiveness and livelihoods of poor farmers, and...
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Bilateral trade and food security
Brooks, Douglas Howard; Ferrarini, Benno; Go, Eugenia - 2013
We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...
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The value of the Committee on Agriculture : mapping Q&As to trade flows
Jackson, Lee Ann; Maggi, Federica; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2020
What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low-income countries participate less than they should in the work of the Committee? How important are issues not covered by notifications? What are the most important issues on which to...
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China, Gmos, and World Trade in Agricultural and Textile Products
Anderson, Kym; Yao, Shunli - 2013
China, GMOs, and world trade in agricultural and textile products China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization following its opening up to global markets during the past two decades has been making that more difficult, and...
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
export of primary agricultural commodities as a means of generating the revenue with which to purchase food and manufactured … goods. This economic specialization erodes food security by depressing domestic food production and by subjecting the export … double standard has depressed the export earnings of developing countries and has resulted in the widespread pauperization of …
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The Doha Round Negotiations and EU's Common Agricultural Policy
Gechev, Vasil - 2020
The Doha Round, launched in 2001, is the longest going (still unfinished) Round of negotiations in the history of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor GATT. The main roadblock to Doha’s successful completion is disagreement on agricultural issues – the Special Safeguard...
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The Legal and Economic Implications of Economic Partnership Agreements in Kenya's Trade Arena : Assessing Liberalization of Agriculture and Food Security
Juma, Jill - 2010
This paper examines the concept of Reciprocal Trade Liberalization – the common objective of Economic Partnership Agreements, and its legal and economic effect on Kenya's Agricultural Sector/Industry within the purview of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The study is premised...
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Quantitative analysis of the impacts of Croatia's agricultural trade policy on the agri-food sector
Weingarten, Peter; Frohberg, Klaus; Winter, Etti; … - 2003
Croatia recently signed several trade liberalisation agreements. The cornerstones of its trade policy are WTO membership, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and Croatia's application of membership as well as bilateral free trade agreements within the Stability Pact for South...
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