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The Uruguay Round trade negotiations completed in April 1994 reduced beef trade barriers. Trade barriers for beef products have historically been significant. The Uruguay Round essentially converts many nontariff barriers (quotas) to tariffs (tariffication), includes safeguards for import...
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U.S. participation in trade liberalization agreements with Canada and Mexico through the Canada–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has generated intense debates in agricultural sectors about the benefits and costs of those agreements. The CFTA...
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Forecasting feeder cattle basis has long been difficult because of the myriad factors that influence basis, including input and output prices and lot characteristics. This research draws upon knowledge of the various factors that influence cash feeder cattle prices to develop hedonic feeder...
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U.S. participation in trade liberalization agreements with Canada and Mexico through the Canada–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has generated intense debates in agricultural sectors about the benefits and costs of those agreements. The CFTA...
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The marginal contribution of each of the selected variables was quantified in terms of premiums and discounts and mapped as dynamic iso-price regions that illustrate geographic and seasonal permanent price patterns for feeder cattle, as well as changing market conditions derived from unexpected...
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Studies on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) are abundant in the literature. But most researchers have … examined GATT’s impact on economic activities with scant or no attention given to its impact on institutions such as market … agricultural trade. This study finds consistent evidence that GATT reforms promoted market integration and improved market …
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which it had escaped in the early days of the GATT. The agreement limits the distortions that countries may impose on …
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its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). One important, although largely untested, conclusion … from this literature is that the GATT/WTO works well if we ignore trade in agriculture - one of the institution’s seemingly …
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A simple measure is proposed that estimates the volume of trade distortion caused by the agricultural policies of trading countries. The index, called a TDS (Trade Distorted by support), would be useful for trade analysts to compare the trade impact of agricultural support policies across...
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