Agricultural Policy Reform in the WTO--The Road Ahead
by Mary E. Burfisher
Agricultural Economic Report No. (AER-802) 120 pp, May 2001
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Agricultural trade barriers and producer subsidies inflict real costs, both on the countries that use these policies and on their trade partners. This report quantifies the costs of global agricultural distortions and the potential benefits of their full elimination. The report concludes that eliminating global agricultural policy distortions would result in an annual world welfare gain of $56 billion. The report also analyzes the effects on U.S. and world agriculture if only partial reform is achieved in liberalizing tariffs, tariff-rate quotas (limits on imported goods), domestic support, and export subsidies.
Keywords: agricultural trade, trade barriers, tariff-rate quotas, export subsidies, domestic support, aggregate measure of support, World Trade Organization, deveoping countries, trade policy
In this publication...
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Summary, Pdf file 9 kb
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Overview, Pdf file 88 kb
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Chapter 1: A Global Analysis of Agricultural Reform in WTO Member Countries, Pdf file 59 kb
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Box: Environmental Issues in a Trade Context, Pdf file 14 kb
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Chapter 2: Options for Reducing Agricultural Tariffs, Pdf file 84 kb
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Box: The Economics of Animal Welfare Issues, Pdf file 10 kb
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Chapter 3: Liberalizing Tariff-Rate Quotas, Pdf file 45 kb
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Box: Welfare Implications of Liberalizing Preferential Quotas, Pdf file 10 kb
- Chapter 4: Options for Reducing the Aggregate Measurement of Support in OECD Countries, Pdf file NaN kb
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Box: Multifunctionality: Options for Agricultural Reform, Pdf file 13 kb
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Chapter 5: Effects of Eliminating EU Export Subsidies, Pdf file 53 kb
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Chapter 6: Impacts of Agricultural Policy Reform on Low-Income Countries, Pdf file 40 kb
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Appendix 1: Data on Tariffs, TRQs, and Export Subsidies, Pdf file 13 kb
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Appendix 2: Measuring Agricultural Policies, Pdf file 24 kb
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Appendix 3: Model Documentation, Pdf file 9 kb
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Glossary, Pdf file 12 kb
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Recommended Readings, Pdf file 9 kb
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Entire report, Pdf file 476 kb
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