Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda: Creating a Global Trading Environment for Development

by Edited by Merlinda D. Ingco , L. Alan Winters

• ISBN13: 9780521826853
• ISBN10: 0521826853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Negotiating the liberalization of world agricultural trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is fraught with difficulty due to the complexity of the issues and the wide range of interests across countries. In the round of global trade negotiations under the WTO, different perspectives on trade reform have produced a highly contentious agenda. These issues are addressed from a range of perspectives in this survey of the trade agenda and its implications for both developing and developed countries. Agricultural trade specialists, including those in universities, in international organizations and think tanks, analyse a comprehensive range of topics including interests and options in the WTO trade negotiations, the trade agenda from a development patent perspective, WTO trade rules, trade barriers, tariff negotiations and patent protection for developing countries.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Merlinda D. Ingco and L. Alan Winters

2. What's at stake? Developing countries' interest in the new WTO round Merlinda D. Ingco and L. Alan Winters

Part I. Experience and Lessons from the Implementation of WTO Agreements: 3. The Uruguay round agreement on agriculture in practice: how open are the OECD markets? Dimitris Diakosavvas

4. How developing countries are implementing tariff-rate quotas Philip Abbott and B. Adair Morse

5. A review of the operation of the agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures Gretchen Stanton

Part II. Interests, Options, and Objectives in a New Trade Round: 6. Agriculture, developing countries, and the WTO round Kym Anderson

7. Where the interests of developing countries converge and diverge Alberto Valdes and Alexander F. McCalla

Part III. New Trade Rules and Quantitative Assessments of Future Liberalization Options: 8. Market access, export subsidies, and domestic support: developing new rules Harry de Gorter

9. Options for enhancing market access in a new round Tim Josling and Allan Rae

10. Liberalizing tariff-rate quotas: quantifying the effects of enhancing market access Aziz Elbehri, Merlinda Ingco, Thomas Hertel and Kenneth Pearson

11. The global and regional effects of liberalizing agriculture and other trade in the new round Thomas W. Hertel, Kym Anderson, Joseph F. Francois and Will Martin

12. Economy-wide effects of agricultural trade liberalization Dean A. De Rosa

13. Liberalizing sugar: the taste test of the WTO Brent Borrell and David Pearce

14. Bananas: straightening out bent ideas on trade as aid Brent Borrell

Part IV. New Trade Issues and Developing Country Agriculture: 15. Sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to agricultural trade: progress, prospects, and implications for developing countries Donna Roberts, David Orden and Timothy Josling

16. How developing countries view the impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on agricultural exports Spencer Henson, Rupert Loader, Alan Swinbank and Maury Bredahl

17. State trading in agricultural trade: options and prospects for new rules W. M. Miner

18. Environmental considerations in agricultural negotiations in the new WTO round John Whalley

19. Intellectual property rights and agriculture Jayashree Watal

20. Genetically modified foods, trade and developing countries Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Karen Thierfelder and Sherman Robinson

21. Multifunctionality and the optimal environmental policies for agriculture in an open economy Jeffrey M. Peterson, Richard N. Boisvert and Harry de Gorter

22. The role of the WTO accession in economic reform: a three-dimensional view Craig Van Grassteck.