Agriculture, Trade, and the WTO in South Asia
Historically, industrialized countries dominated trade negotiations from the establishment of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) through the lengthy Uruguay Round (UR) negotiations in the 1980s and 1990s. These negotiations establish...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2811850/agriculture-trade-wto-south-asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15072 |
| Summary: | Historically, industrialized countries
dominated trade negotiations from the establishment of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) through the
lengthy Uruguay Round (UR) negotiations in the 1980s and
1990s. These negotiations established the World Trade
Organization (WTO)-the GATT's successor
organization-and formulated the UR Agreement on Agriculture
(AoA). Even though developing countries possibly have the
most to gain from a substantial reduction of existing export
subsidies and removal of other trade impediments (Gorter,
Ingco, and Ruiz 2000; Ingco 1995), these countries have been
the most powerless, and the most ineffective. This is why it
is imperative that developing countries, particularly those
in South Asia, seize the moment to actively participate in
this process of shaping a more globally integrated economic
environment and to convey, for instance, their experience
from implementing the reduction commitments and the effect
of those commitments under the URAoA, the consequence of
Special and Differential (S&D) Treatment, and their
concerns regarding food security and the environment and the
possible negative effects of the execution of the reform
program. The new round, it is hoped, will cover broader
issues, with established deadlines and room for tradeoffs. |
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