The signing of the Uruguay Round agreement on agriculture (URAA) in 1994 was a significant step towards the liberalization of world agricultural trade. A new round of negotiations on agriculture is scheduled to begin under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the end of 1999....

This document is the technical annex to the full paper "Implicit Tariffs on Imported Dairy Product Components in the United States" which is available separately.

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<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">summary</heading><title type="document">Riding the Roller-Coaster - What's Next for US Farm Policy?</title>Changes in the balance of political power and in budgetary constraints create a roller- coaster in US agricultural policy with shifts between more and less government intervention, higher and lower spending, and more or less...