Agricultural Globalization, Trade, and the Environment

by Moss, Charles B.; Rausser, Gordon C.; Schmitz, Andrew; Taylor, Timothy G.; Zilberman, David

• ISBN13: 9780792374725
• ISBN10: 079237472X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The chapters collected here explore a number of different issues, including the operation of the tariff-rate quotas established under the Uruguay Round Agreement, the implications of sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions on trade, and the growing controversy over genetically modified organisms. In addition, several chapters analyze the interaction between agricultural trade and environmental concerns. The relative prosperity in U.S. agriculture that attended the passage of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 was followed by a general decline in U.S. agricultural prices from 1998 to 2000. This trend in declining prices continues through the year 2001, despite the movement toward more liberalized agricultural trade. Trade liberalization has been the result of a variety of factors, including the implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement, and the establishment of a variety of regional trade agreements, such as the North America Free Trade Agreement. Needless to say, in the face of falling agricultural prices and increasingly liberalized agricultural trade, the agricultural policy scene is an extremely complex one, both locally and globally. This volume does not pretend to offer a single, systematic prescription for what the next agricultural policy should be. Rather, the arguments and analyses contained herein are intended to highlight several issues that must be considered in the continuing debates on agricultural policy.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Figures	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
About the Contributors	xix
Preface	xxv
Agricultural Globalization, Trade, and the Environment: Introduction	1	(12)
Charles B. Moss
Timothy G. Taylor
Part I: Farm Programs and Trade Liberalization
Farm Policy Reform in the United States	13	(22)
David Orden
Trade, Uncertainty, and New Farm Programs	35	(26)
Luther Tweeten
Has the Importance of Foreign Markets for U.S. Agriculture been Oversold?	61	(20)
Bruce L. Gardner
Trade Liberalization and Small Economies: The Case of the Caribbean Community	81	(34)
Carlton G. Davis
Ballayram
Edward A. Evans
Clive Y. Thomas
Agricultural and Trade Policy under Administrative Water Regimes	115	(18)
Charles B. Moss
Chris de Bodisco
Liberalization with Protection: Import Management in Korea (with Emphasis on Rice)	133	(20)
Daniel A. Summer
Jung-Sup Choi
Part II: Tariffs, Quotas and Rent Seeking
Market Conduct and the Economic Impacts of a Tariff-rate Quota Policy: The European Banana Case	153	(26)
Roland Herrmann
Richard Sexton
Rent Seeking and International Trade in Agriculture	179	(34)
Harry de Gorter
Gordon C. Rausser
Andrew Schmitz
Ex Ante Assessment of the FAIR Act	213	(26)
Chris Dumas
Troy G. Schmitz
Import Rules for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Contaminated Beef	239	(14)
Philip L. Paarlberg
John G. Lee
Trade Distortions in a Free-trade Zone: The Case of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Restrictions	253	(16)
Thomas H. Spreen
John J. VanSickle
Charlene M. Brewster
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Issues: Where Does the WTO Go From Here?	269	(18)
Suzanne D. Thornsbury
Part III: Foreign-Direct Investment, Trade, and Vertical Contracting
Foreign Direct Investment and Vertical Contracting in the Agri-Food Sector of Transition Economies	287	(22)
Hamish R. Gow
Johan F.M. Swinnen
The Impact of Food Industry Globalization on Agricultural Trade Policy	309	(20)
Tim Josling
International Trade and the Firm	329	(18)
Timothy G. Taylor
James L. Seale, Jr.
Part IV: Trade and the Environment
International Trade with Price Supports and Environmental Constraints: The Canadian Hog Industry	347	(24)
Richard Gray
Robert Romain
Hartley Furtan
Environmental Problems, Immigration, and Trade	371	(36)
Richard E. Just
Sinaia Netanyahu
Welfare Gains under Tradable CO2 Permits	407	(16)
Larry Karp
Xuemei Liu
The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: A Global Perspective	423	(16)
David Zilberman
Xuemei Liu
David Sunding
Tradable Permits and Agricultural Sequestration of Carbon	439	(18)
Chris Dumas
Charles B. Moss
Andrew Schmitz
Part V: Trade and Biotechnology
The Timing of Evaluation of Genebank Materials and the Effects of Biotechnology	457	(24)
Bonwoo Koo
Brian D. Wright
The Identification and Classification of Genetically Modified Organisms: Implications for Trade	481	(22)
Richard Gray
Jill E. Hobbs
Faycal Haggui
International Trade in Genetically Modified Agri-food Products	503	(18)
Peter W.B. Phillips
Index	521