Trade Issues Facing U.S. Horticulture in the WTO Negotiations

Jason Donovan and Barry Krissoff

No 396379, Vegetables and Melons Outlook from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: New negotiations on trade in agriculture were recently initiated by the World Trade Organization (WTO). It is likely that these negotiations will focus on issues previously addressed by the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, which placed limits on the use of tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, export subsidies, and the type and level of spending countries are permitted on domestic support programs. While these disciplines have restricted the ability of member countries to use trade-distorting policies, other factors may have contributed more heavily to increasing U.S. fruit and vegetable trade. For U.S. producers, the Agreement has not been accompanied by an increase in the value of exports as much as had been hoped by the U.S. produce industry. Consequently, U.S. objectives for the upcoming negotiations include further reducing tariffs and improving market access, eliminating and prohibiting the use of export subsidies, and placing further limitations on trade-distorting domestic support programs. Continued monitoring of changes in phytosanitary and food safety protocols is also in the interest of the U.S. produce industry.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2001-08
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/396379/files/VGS-285-01.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersor:396379

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.396379

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Vegetables and Melons Outlook from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().