This report analyses the likely effects of Croatia's accession to the European Union (EU) on the agricultural and food sectors in terms of trade, production, employment and GDP for Croatia, the EU-27 and their main trading partners. Using a multi-country Computable General Equilibrium model...

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...

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...

A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the discussion ofthe reform of global agricultural trade. In this paper, the effects ofthe revised Harbinson paper (March 2003) are analysed with anextensively extended GTAP model. With the help of a base run,projections are implemented in the...

Recent empirical studies have estimated the trade flow effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and 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...

Increased world agricultural production and lower prices helped depress U.S. agricultural exports for the first 7 months of fiscal year (FY) 1985(October 1984-Apri1 1985). Increased consumer demand, freeze damage to F10rida f s winter fruit and vegetable crops, and higher prices pushed U.S. farm...

This report presents statistical summaries of U.S. foreign trade in I agricultural products by country during calendar years 1989 and 1990. Exports and imports valued at more than $1 million are shown. U.S. Bureau of the Census Harmonized System (HS) listings are grouped in standardized economic...

Increased world agricultural production and lower prices helped depress U.S. agricultural exports for the first 7 months of fiscal year (FY) 1985 (October 1984-April 1985). Increased consumer demand, freeze damage to Florida's winter fruit and vegetable crops, and higher prices pushed U.S. farm...