Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture
by Mary E. Burfisher and Elizabeth A. Jones
Agricultural Economic Report No. (AER-771) 150 pp, November 1998
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Regional trade agreements (RTA's) have become a fixture in the global trade arena. Their advocates contend that RTA's can serve as building blocks for multilateral trade liberalization. Their opponents argue that these trade pacts will divert trade from more efficient nonmember producing countries. U.S. agriculture can benefit from participating in RTA's and may lose when it does not. Agriculture is the source of most potential U.S. gains from RTA's. While the United States, as a global trader with diverse trade partners, can gain potentially more from global free trade than from RTA's, many recent RTA's have been more comprehensive in their liberalization of agricultural trade than the Uruguay Round. A strong multilateral process can help ensure that RTA's are trade creating, rather than protectionist. (Please also see Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture: An Overview).
Keywords: regional trade agreements, global trade, agricultural trade, multilateral trade, trade liberalization, Uruguay Round
In this publication...
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Frontmatter, Pdf file 31 kb
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Chapter 1, Pdf file 1,254 kb
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Appendix 1. The Economics of Regional Integration, Pdf file 286 kb
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Appendix 2. Regional Integration and Farm Household Adjustment, Pdf file 418 kb
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Chapter 2. RTA's and Agricultural Trade: A Retrospective Assessment, Pdf file 239 kb
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Chapter 3. Multilateral and Regional Trade Reforms: A Global Assessment from a U.S. Perspective, Pdf file 536 kb
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Chapter 4. A Dynamic Evaluation of the Effects of Western Hemisphere Integration on the U.S. Economy, Pdf file 466 kb
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Chapter 5. CEEC Accession to the EU: A General Equilibrium Analysis, Pdf file 736 kb
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Chapter 6. Farm Policy Reforms and Harmonization in the NAFTA, Pdf file 426 kb
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Appendix 3. Chile Entering NAFTA: Implications for U.S. Horticultural Trade, Pdf file 10 kb
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Chapter 7. Regional Trade Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment, Pdf file 34 kb
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Appendix 4. U.S. Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Processed Food Industries, Pdf file 438 kb
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Chapter 8. Agriculture, GATT, and Regional Trade Agreements, Pdf file 44 kb
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Appendix 5. U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Agreement, Pdf file 11 kb
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Chapter 9. U.S.-Japan Agreements on Beef Imports: A Case of Successful Bilateral Negotiations, Pdf file 47 kb
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Chapter 10. Economic Integration and Open Regionalism in APEC: The Gains for U.S. Agriculture, Pdf file 1,086 kb
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Chapter 11. Enlargement of the European Union to Central and Eastern Europe: Obstacles and Possible Consequences of Policy Harmonization, Pdf file 151 kb
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Chapter 12. Western Hemisphere Trading Blocs and Tariff Barriers for U.S. Agricultural Exports, Pdf file 517 kb
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Appendix. Model Documentation, Pdf file 22 kb
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Entire Report, Pdf file 6,690 kb
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