Agriculture and Trade Liberalisation : Extending the Uruguay Round Agreement.

✍ Scribed by OECD

• Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This report provides information on the average tariff levels and on the use of tariff-rate quotas, export subsidies and export credits by selected OECD countries for temperate-zone agricultural products. The implications of further liberalisation of the various instruments over the medium term are examined. The effects of further trade liberalisation of agricultural markets over the medium-term depend significantly on the modalities and prevailing market conditions against which the liberalisation scenarios are compared. On market access, although the largest impact on world prices is from ta.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Preamble
Part I. Tariff-rate quotas and tariffs in oecd agricultural markets: a forward-looking analysis
Summary
Introduction
The economics of TRQs
TRQs and fill rates
Tariffs
Empirical implementation
Scenarios
Differences between TRQBASE and BASELINE
Scenario results
Summary and conclusions
Annex I.A
Annex I.B
Notes
References
Part II. A forward-looking analysis of export subsidies in agriculture
Data from country notifications to the WTO
Summary of Aglink and the Outlook
Quantity controls or support prices
Results of the scenario
Key assumptions
Conclusions. Annex. Implementation of the export subsidy scenario in AglinkPart III. An analysis of officially supported Export Credits in agriculture
Introduction
Use of export credits
Subsidy rate of export credits
How defaults can affect the subsidy rate
Importers and liquidity constraints
Other uses of export credits excluded from this study
Export credits in world agricultural product markets
Conclusions
Notes
Glossary
Annex. Method and Data used to Evaluate Export Credits
References.

✦ Subjects

Agriculture and state;Commercial treaties;Produce trade;International trade