Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- List of contributors
- 1 An overview: options for global trade reform – a view from the Asia-Pacific
- 2 Agriculture and the Doha Development Agenda
- 3 Liberalizing trade in manufactures
- 4 Returning textiles and clothing to GATT disciplines
- 5 Approaches to further liberalization of trade in services
- 6 Liberalization of air transport services
- 7 Liberalization of maritime transport services
- 8 International trade in telecoms services
- 9 East Asia and options for negotiations on investment
- 10 Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization
- 11 The long and winding road to the Government Procurement Agreement: Korea's accession experience
- 12 Trade facilitation in the World Trade Organization: Singapore to Doha and beyond
- 13 Trade, the environment, and labor: text, institutions, and context
- Index
- References
2 - Agriculture and the Doha Development Agenda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- List of contributors
- 1 An overview: options for global trade reform – a view from the Asia-Pacific
- 2 Agriculture and the Doha Development Agenda
- 3 Liberalizing trade in manufactures
- 4 Returning textiles and clothing to GATT disciplines
- 5 Approaches to further liberalization of trade in services
- 6 Liberalization of air transport services
- 7 Liberalization of maritime transport services
- 8 International trade in telecoms services
- 9 East Asia and options for negotiations on investment
- 10 Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization
- 11 The long and winding road to the Government Procurement Agreement: Korea's accession experience
- 12 Trade facilitation in the World Trade Organization: Singapore to Doha and beyond
- 13 Trade, the environment, and labor: text, institutions, and context
- Index
- References
Summary
There is a mixture of views within East Asia about agricultural trade reform and hence about its inclusion in the Uruguay Round agreements. On the one hand, governments in the wealthier, densely populated countries are under pressure to continue to protect their farmers from import competition and to be seen to be providing an adequate degree of food security. In the countries with a stronger comparative advantage in agricultural products, on the other hand, governments are keen to secure more access to markets for their farmers' exports Sicular (1989; Anderson 1994). This difference of views within East Asia surfaces periodically in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) as well as World Trade Organization (WTO) fora. Since it is mirrored in other regions of the world, too, agriculture is guaranteed to be a controversial part of the round of multilateral trade negotiations, launched in Doha in November 2001, just as it was in the Uruguay Round.
Given the high degree of distortion in world food markets that existed in the 1980s, every impartial observer agrees that one of the great achievements of the Uruguay Round was to start to bring agricultural policies under GATT discipline and to agree to return to the negotiating table by the turn of the century. Since the signing of the Uruguay Round accord in 1994, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to agricultural imports have been tariffied and bound and the tariff bindings progressively reduced.
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- Options for Global Trade ReformA View from the Asia-Pacific, pp. 25 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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