Distortionary effects of state trading in agriculture: issues for the next round of negotiations

Merlinda Ingco and Francis Ng

No 1915, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The Uruguay Round agreements on agriculture were intended to move member countries toward a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system. By progressively reducing domestic government support and export subsidies, converting nontariff barriers to tariffs, and reducing barriers to market access, members were committed to reducing distortions in world agricultural trade and in preventing new distortions from arising. But state trading enterprises with monopoly power or exclusive rights in agricultural trade in major products are still prevalent in both industrial and developing countries. In many countries, the operations of these state trading agencies tend in practice to nullify the intended objectives of the concessions on market access reached in the Uruguay Round. And there are still significant price distortions in trade in products subject to state trading.

Keywords: Economic Theory&Research; Markets and Market Access; Payment Systems&Infrastructure; Environmental Economics&Policies; Rules of Origin; TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT; Economic Theory&Research; Environmental Economics&Policies; Access to Markets; Markets and Market Access (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-04-30
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