of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … redistributing from those involved in the production of textiles and clothing to the producers of cotton. The core analysis of the … statistics designed to assess the export status of cotton, whether in raw or processed form. Findings – The paper reviews the …

Although the key issue in the WTO negotiations on agriculture is subsidies reduction, the EU and USA still account more … than 85% of the world agriculture subsidies. An important policy question confronting developing countries is whether the … countries from 1995 to 2005, the results of cointegration and ECM indicate that 1% reduction in the subsidies imposed by the EU …

factors. Data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) for the years 2005 …

We study a Hotelling’s duopoly in world cotton market to examine the effects of Precision Agriculture’s (PA) adoption … producers should be well advised to adopt PA to offer “environmental quality” cotton whereas CWA producers have a natural … comparative advantage that allows them to offer a “product quality” cotton. We also argue that if the USA subsidizes PA in order …

This study aims to assess the protection for Vietnamese agriculture under trade liberalization based on the input … using an input-output table, taking into account tariffs, subsidies and value-added tax. Based on the data of 2012 and 2016 … primary agriculture and its supporting sectors, and would become negative by 2020. This implies that Vietnamese farmers are at …

agriculture (market approach and internal support). It is expected that Doha round of WTO negotiations should result with a … support to agriculture. …

. China may learn from the US experience in developing agricultural subsidies that are effective and allowed under WTO …