Title: Agricultural trade policies in the new millennium
Abstract: * About the Editors * Contributors * Preface * Chapter 1. Issues and Obstacles for Agricultural Trade Policy in the New Millennium * Issues and Perspectives for Future Trade Agreements * Scope of This Volume * Part I: Key Issues Influencing Agricultural Trade Negotiations * Chapter 2. Progress in Agricultural Trade Negotiations * Introduction * Policy Harmonization and Side Agreements * State Trading Enterprises (STEs) and the WTO * Keeping the Borders Open * The Green Box * R&D and Trade * Multinationals and Vertical Market Structures * Gainers and Losers * Future Directions * Conclusion * Chapter 3. Issues in the WTO Agricultural Negotiations: An Overview * Introduction * Building on the Uruguay Round * The Agenda for the Agricultural Negotiations * Market Access * TRQ Expansion * Curbing Export Subsidies * Domestic Support * Health, Safety, and Environmental Issues * The Timing of the Negotiations * Chapter 4. Obstacles to Progress in Multilateral Agricultural Trade Negotiations: The European Viewpoint * EU Agricultural Policy Prior to the Uruguay Round Negotiations * EU Policy and the Uruguay Round Agreement * EU Perspectives on Future Agricultural Policy * Implications for the Trade Negotiations * Conclusion * Chapter 5. One Perspective on U.S. Policy and Agricultural Progress in World Trade Organization Negotiations * General Obstacles to Progress in Current WTO Negotiations in Agriculture * The Negotiating Position of the United States and Progress in the Current WTO Round * Trade and Agricultural Policies of the United States As Obstacles to Progress in the Current WTO Round * Concluding Remarks * Chapter 6. Agricultural Negotiations in the Context of a Broader Round: A Developing Country Perspective * Agricultural Liberalization * Industrial Tariffs * Services * Industrial, Investment, and Export Development Policies * Achieving Balance: Rule Making and Implementation * Labor, Environmental, and Related Standards Issues * Developing Country Participation * Concluding Remarks * Chapter 7. Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Environment: Issues and Policies * Introduction * The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Environment * The Positions of Fourteen Major Environmental NGOs * Countries? Agricultural Negotiating Positions with Environmental Implications * Relationship Between Fourteen Environmental NGOs and Countries? WTO Proposals * The Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Production-Linked Supports * Conclusion * Part II: Commodity Trade Issues * Chapter 8. Trade Liberalization in Rice * Progress in Rice Trade Liberalization * Issues for Rice in the Current WTO Round * Chapter 9. Major Issues in the U.S. Sugar Industry Under 2000 WTO Negotiations and NAFTA * Introduction * Overview of the World Sugar Industry * The U.S. Sugar Program and Policies * Sugar and Sweetener Trade under NAFTA * Foreign Sugar Policies and Practices * Major Issues in the U.S. Sugar Industry * Concluding Remarks * Chapter 10. Major Issues for the U.S. Wheat Industry: Implications of China?s Entry in to the WTO * Introduction * World Wheat Industry * Trade Agreements and Policies * Major Issues in the 2000 Round of WTO Negotiations * The Impacts of China?s WTO Entry on the World and U.S. Wheat Industries * Results * Conclusion * Chapter 11. New WTO Agricultural Trade Negotiations: Issues for the U.S. Coarse Grain Market * Introduction * Global Coarse Grain Trade * Accomplishments of the Uruguay Round and Issues for New Agricultural Negotiations * Continuing Issues * Other Issues * Conclusion * Chapter 12. The World Trade Organization and Southern Agriculture: The Cotton Perspective * The Current Cotton Situation * The WTO and Cotton * Conclusion * Part III: Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Issues and Concerns * Chapter 13. The Impacts of Export Subsidy Reduction Commitments in the Agreement on Agriculture and International Trade: A General Assessment * Introduction * The Economics of Volume versus Value Commitments on Export Subsidies * Final Considerations and Conclusion * Chapter 14. Agricultural Trade Liberalization Beyond Uruguay: U.S. Options and Interests * Introduction * Methodology * Unfinished Business * China and the WTO * Regional Alternatives * Concluding Comments * Chapter 15. Regional versus Multilateral Trade Arrangements: Which Way Should the Western Hemisphere Go on Trade? * Introduction * The Free Trade Area of the Americas * The Prospects for a New Multilateral Trade Agreement * The Modeling Framework * Results * Conclusion and Policy Recommendations * Chapter 16. Regionalism and Trade Creation: The Case of NAFTA * Introduction * Determination of the Break Period: Method * What Happened to Trade Creation? * Regionalism, Regionalization, and NAFTA: Concluding Remarks * Chapter 17. Increased Use of Antidumping Weakens Global Trade Liberalization * Introduction * What Is Dumping? * Use of Antidumping by Countries * Examination of the Current AD Law * Agriculture and Antidumping * Potential Impacts on Future Agricultural Trade * Chapter 18. Implementation of the SPS Agreement * Institutional Changes * Standard-Setting Procedures * Issues for the Next Round * Conclusion * Chapter 19. Modeling Impacts of the Macroeconomic and Political Environment on Long-Term Prospects for Agricultural World Markets * Introduction * Brief Overview of Other Agricultural Market Models * Outline of the WATSIM Modeling System * Model Results: Prospects and Sensitivity of Agricultural World Markets * Further Developments * Summary and Conclusion * Chapter 20. Price Volatility: A Bitter Pill of Trade Liberalization in Agriculture? * Introduction * Approach * Empirical Results: The History of Price Volatility and Evidence of Change * Conclusion * Chapter 21. Challenges and Prospects for Agricultural Trade Policy in the New Millennium * Challenges for Agricultural Trade Policy * Prospects for Agricultural Trade Policy * Index * Reference Notes Included
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
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