The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade distorting policies and evaluates the effects of trade liberalization on peanut producers, shellers, manufactures, and U.S. consumers of peanut products. Decreasing marketing...

The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade distorting policies and evaluates the effects of trade liberalization on peanut producers, shellers, manufactures, and U.S. consumers of peanut products. Decreasing marketing...

One of the major problems in the ongoing trade negotiations within the WTO is trade in agricultural products. In the case of the European Union, due to the significant level of protectionism in agriculture, an adoption of the WTO liberalization commitments in this area will mean a reform of the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the position of India in the WTO agricultural negotiations. The article is divided into three parts. Part One will discuss the economic significance of the agricultural sector in India. Part Two will analyze India’s trade policy. The main part of the paper...

Na agricultura paulista foram registrados, em alguns anos da década de 1990, ganhos significativos de produtividade. Com destaque para os ganhos médios de produtividade que foram cerca de duas vezes superior aos da média nacional. Dessa maneira, o objetivo deste trabalho foi mensurar a...

Agriculture is a very specific sector of production and therefore requires a state intervention, which, however, has several negative effects, which tends to take action to liberalize agricultural trade. An important role in limiting intervention in the agri-food sector played by the Uruguay...

Japan’s agriculture has been inward oriented, protected by trade barriers from foreign competition. Even though the share of Japan’s food consumption provided by Japanese production has gradually fallen, Japan’s farm sector remains the second-largest among the countries negotiating the...