Showing 11 - 20 of 13,480
More open international markets benefit the economy as a whole, as well as most U.S. agricultural producers. The Uruguay Round Agreement laid out a useful framework. Specifically addressed here is why the key to further liberalizing agricultural trade is reduction of tariffs as comprehensively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005503700
This paper shows that research on international agricultural trade reform can make much greater contributions to understanding than was feasible in earlier trade negotiations. Part of this is due to improvements in the basic data on production, consumption and trade associated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005525303
It is increasingly questionable whether the WTO regime is the most appropriate form of governance for addressing global … expected imbalance in food demand-supply by 2050 are emerging as grave challenges to humanity and the WTO is still struggling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922623
The variability of protection rates within sectors is frequently particularly high in agriculture relative to non-agriculture. Standard aggregation procedures ignore the variability within sectors, and underweight the importance of highly protected sectors. It therefore seems likely that they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021173
international framework that could discipline the use of agricultural export restrictions; the agreements of the WTO have been … analysed, and conclude that constraints on agricultural export restrictions are not likely to be effective within the WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186152
Recent empirical studies have estimated the trade flow effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and … from this literature is that the GATT/WTO works well if we ignore trade in agriculture -­‐ one of the institution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070007
El trabajo explora diversas vías para la puesta en práctica de la Decisión de Marrakech. Se establecen ciertas pautas para definir con precisión los efectos negativos sobre los países en desarrollo de la liberalización comercial agrícola a los que alude la Decisión de Marrakech, y se...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070578
Nonreciprocal trade preference programs originated in the 1970s under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) as an effort by high-income developed countries to provide tariff concessions for low-income countries. The goal of the programs was to increase export earnings, promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005514121
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005468963
This article questions whether the WTO regime is the most appropriate institution for governing the global agriculture … supply by 2050 are emerging as major challenges to humanity and the WTO while it is still struggling to resolve issues … for the global agriculture: (i) inability of the WTO in resolving agricultural protectionism of the 20th century; (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082987