Ideas, institutions, and trade the WTO and the curious role of EU farm policy in trade liberalization /

• Main Author: Daugbjerg, Carsten.
• Other Authors: Swinbank, A.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Subjects: World Trade Organization.; Agriculture and state > European Union countries.; Agriculture > Economic aspects > European Union countries.; Free trade > European Union countries.; Business.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Agribusiness. > Industries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Sustainable Agriculture. > Agriculture; Electronic books.
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It has always proved difficult to achieve trade liberalization for agricultural products. This book shows how a new Agriculture Agreement in the WTO led to CAP reform, which in turn allowed for greater flexibility in subsequent international trade negotiations.

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to agricultural exceptionalism in EU farm policy and the GATT
• Ideas, institutions, and policy : a theoretical framework
• WTO rules for agricultural trade : GATT 1947 and the URAA
• Explaining the erosion of agricultural exceptionalism in the Uruguay Round
• Dispute settlement and its implication for agricultural exceptionalism
• EU agricultural institutions and the CAP : coping with GATT/WTO
• Setting the limits : CAP reform and WTO farm trade rules
• Beyond Doha : conclusions and prospects.