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Will agriculture always remain a problem in GATT?

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GATT has had extraordinarily scant “success” in the agricultural sphere up to now. To what extent is this due to the special status accorded to agriculture in GATT? Are trends discernible within GATT that might lead to an improvement in the situation? Might the Uruguay Round produce fundamentally new solutions?

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  1. OECD: National Policies and Agricultural Trade, Paris, May 1987.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Sir Eric Wyndham White: International Trade Policy: The Kennedy Round and Beyond. Address to the Deutsche Gesellschaft fü r Auswä rtige Politik, Bad Godesberg, 27th October 1967.

  4. K. Dam: The GATT - Law and International Economic Organization, Chicago and London 1970, p. 257.

  5. Sugar is a significant exception, however, for in the recent past a progressive reduction in US import quotas for sugar has dramatically curtailed the volume imported.

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  9. H.-J. Winterling, S. Tangermann: Economic Implications of Restricting Manioc Trade between Thailand and the EEC, Kiel 1987.

  10. S. Tangermann: Proposals for a “Rule-oriented” Liberalization of International Agricultural Trade. Paper prepared for the Conference on “The New GATT Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Legal and Economic Problems” organised by the Zentrum fü r interdisziplinä re Forschung der Universitä t Bielefeld, 11–13th June 1987.

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  12. In contrast to the concept of producer rents used in welfare analysis, the notion of PSEs as applied hitherto in policy analysis and applicable to negotiations within GATT is based on the assumption of constant input and output volumes.

  13. R. Senti: GATT-Allgemeines Zoll- und Handelsabkommen als System der Welthandelsordnung, Zurich 1986, pp. 85 ff.

  14. S. Tangermann, T. E. Josling, S. R. Pearson: Multilateral Negotiations on Farm Support Levels: The Role of PSEs; to be published in the September 1987 issue of World Economy.

  15. Ibid.

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Tangermann, S. Will agriculture always remain a problem in GATT?. Intereconomics 22, 163–167 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02932248

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