The difficult task of disciplining domestic support

David Orden, David Blandford and Tim Josling

Chapter 14 in Farm Policies and World Markets:Monitoring and Disciplining the International Trade Impacts of Agricultural Policies, 2015, pp 276-317 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: When the WTO was launched at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round negotiations its members committed to a new set of disciplines for agricultural domestic support, market access and export competition. It was recognized at the time that the domestic support disciplines were rather porous. Their architecture was consistent with the modest objectives that WTO members had collectively agreed to reduce distortions in world markets. What was uncertain at that point was just how the agreed-upon disciplines would interact with subsequent domestic agricultural policy decisions. In particular, it was not known to what extent the new rules and commitments would motivate countries to shift their policies in the less trade-distorting direction envisioned by the Agreement on Agriculture…

Keywords: Agricultural Policies; Agricultural Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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