Agricultural Trade Conflicts And Gatt

Author : Giovanni Anania
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720604

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Agricultural Trade Conflicts And Gatt by Giovanni Anania Pdf

Agricultural trade, always a source of international friction, will remain a contentious issue in the years to come. The GATT agreement achieved only partial trade liberalization; recognizing this, the agreement calls for a continuation of the negotiation process to achieve the long-run goal of a “substantial reduction in agricultural support and protection.†In any case, it is clear that U.S.-European Union (EU) agricultural trade relations will remain central to any future negotiation. In this volume, leading experts present a comprehensive set of analyses of the U.S.-EU agricultural trade conflict. The discussions provide a unique perspective on the U.S.-EU agricultural trade confrontation in recent years and offer insights into both the final GATT agreement and forthcoming agricultural issues. Presenting a broad historical context, the book focuses on changes in U.S. and European trade and agricultural policies, looking at the implications of these changes for bilateral relations and global agricultural markets. Providing U.S., EU, and third-party perspectives, the contributors analyze the negotiation process in the Uruguay Round of the GATT. Finally, the book explores several additional dimensions of the U.S.-EU agricultural trade conflict, including the consequences of the EU integration and enlargement processes, the environmental impact of the Union’s agricultural policies, and the mechanisms and forces that determine agricultural policy formation in both the United States and in Europe.

Author : T. Josling,S. Tangermann,K. Warley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230378902

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Agriculture in the GATT by T. Josling,S. Tangermann,K. Warley Pdf

Trade in temperate zone farm products between the developed countries has been beset with problems since the GATT's inception in 1947. The basic problem was always that the conditions in world agricultural markets were distorted by the national agricultural policies followed by all developed countries - policies which national authorities were reluctant to adapt to conform with the requirements of a liberal international trading system for agricultural products. This book describes and analyses the attempts that were made to make trade in agriculture less distorted, more stable and predictable, and less of a dangerous source of political friction between nations, in successive rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the 45-year period from GATT's inception in 1947 to the end of the Uruguay Round in 1993. While the book analyses the development of international trade policy throughout the post-war period, particular attention is given to the Kennedy, Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds of GATT negotiations in which the problems of trade in agricultural products were confronted.

Author : William Manning Miner,Centre for Trade Policy and Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : UCSD:31822016805145

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Canada's Response to GATT and NAFTA in Agriculture and the Food Industry by William Manning Miner,Centre for Trade Policy and Law Pdf

Author : Alan Swinbank,Carolyn Tanner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472107275

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Farm Policy and Trade Conflict by Alan Swinbank,Carolyn Tanner Pdf

Provides a context for understanding the agricultural aspects of the GATT, the CAP, and EC-U.S. relations

Author : Nicole Ballenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112019073334

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Agricultural Trade, Agreements, and Disputes in the Western Hemisphere by Nicole Ballenger Pdf

Author : Victor Mosoti,Ambra Gobena
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251058857

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International Trade Rules and the Agriculture Sector by Victor Mosoti,Ambra Gobena Pdf

Since the establishment of the WTO, there have been significant changes in the legal and institutional landscape of many developing countries. Whatever the motivation for trade-related legal reform, our experience in the FAO Legal Office has been that besides the substantial costs involved, there are many challenges to successful and meaningful legal and institutional reforms. Legal drafters must therefore be well aware of the existing legal and administrative culture. They must also have a realistic appreciation of the resource constraints in the country, for inadequate resources certainly restrict the ability of implementing bodies to put new rules into practice. This study is about the nature and extent of these trade-related legal and institutional reforms with a particular focus on those of direct relevance to the agricultural sector. In addition to the sectoral focus on agriculture, the study places distinct emphasis on the challenges of developing countries in the implementation of trade-related international obligations in the agricultural sector. It derives from FAO's experience in advising countries on the implementation of agriculture-related WTO agreements, key elements of which are discussed and illustrated by three representative case studies.

Author : Timothy E. Josling,Stefan Tangermann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783476961

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Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy by Timothy E. Josling,Stefan Tangermann Pdf

Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy traces the past fifty years of transatlantic trade relations in the area of food and agricultural policy, from early skirmishes over chicken exports to ongoing conflicts over biotech foods and hormone us

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : UOM:39015031883005

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Preparing for the GATT by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy Pdf

Author : Charles E. Hanrahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : GATT
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043949143

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Agriculture in the GATT by Charles E. Hanrahan Pdf

Author : Hans J Michelmann,Jack C Stabler,Gary Storey
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000232547

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The Political Economy Of Agricultural Trade And Policy by Hans J Michelmann,Jack C Stabler,Gary Storey Pdf

This book presents a descriptive analysis of the political economy of the European Community, the U.S. and Canada. It describes the structural changes and the crises in agriculture and focuses on impact of GATT on agricultural policy and trade in the post-Second World War era.

Author : Kathryn L. Lipton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agricultural prices
ISBN : MINN:31951003045573T

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Agriculture, Trade, and the GATT by Kathryn L. Lipton Pdf

The appendices includes major agriculture and trade legislation from 1933 to 1990, a summary of the articles of the GATT and contracting parties to the GATT.

Author : Grace Skogstad,Andrew Fenton Cooper
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0886451086

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Agricultural Trade by Grace Skogstad,Andrew Fenton Cooper Pdf

Following an analysis of international negotiations, this document examines the domestic political context which shapes the formulations of agricultural policy. The contributors to this volume analyze the roots of agricultural policies and probe the sources of domestic conflicts and international tensions.

Author : Joseph McMahon,Melaku Geboye Desta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781001233

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Research Handbook on the WTO Agriculture Agreement by Joseph McMahon,Melaku Geboye Desta Pdf

ÔThe range of topics covered in this volume is multi-faceted and various. . . Practitioners with clients involved in agri-business will be particularly interested in the broad spectrum of matters discussed, as will trade negotiators, policy advisors and graduate students in this vital and fascinating field.Õ Ð Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine Agriculture has been the unruly horse of the GATT/WTO system for a long time and efforts to halter it are still ongoing. This Research Handbook focuses on aspects of agricultural production and trade policy that are recognized for their importance but are often kept out of the limelight, such as the implication of national and international agricultural production and trade policies on national food security, global climate change, and biotechnology. It provides a summary of the state of the WTO agriculture negotiations as well as the relevant jurisprudence, but also, and uniquely, it focuses on the new and emerging issues of agricultural trade law and policy that are rarely addressed in the existing literature. With contributions from a multi-disciplinary team of leading analysts from around the world, this Research Handbook will appeal to trade negotiators, international trade law and policy academics as well as postgraduate students in the field.

Author : R. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230390089

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Farm Wars by R. Wolfe Pdf

The Farm War of the early 1980s was rooted in the political economy of agriculture, but it was a crisis for the international trading system. The war was evident in disruptions on the farm and in world markets, in conflicts among major governments, and in disagreements in international organizations. Wolfe shows how and why battles over agricultural protectionism were largely resolved through the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations, demonstrating that the global economy is not self-regulating: it needs institutions if it is to be stable.

Author : Michiel Keyzer,Max Merbis,Geert Overbosch
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9251044236

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WTO, Agriculture, and Developing Countries by Michiel Keyzer,Max Merbis,Geert Overbosch Pdf

The 3rd Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Seattle was not able to launch a new and comprehensive round of multilateral trade negotiations, but it is expected that in the coming years the WTO will be the forum of these negotiations, commonly referred to as the Millenium Round. Developing countries are currently greatly involved in the WTO process and seek active participation in this round. In relation to least developed countries in Africa, and with Ethiopia as country for a case study, the present paper argues that the Agreement on Agriculture, part of the Uruguay Round, has put a system of basic mechanisms into place but not led to significant agricultural trade liberalization. At the same time, a new host of issues have emerged that relate directly or indirectly to food and agriculture. The report highlights the various interactions between these subjects from the perspective of Ethiopia.