Ideas, institutions, and trade
Subtitle: the WTO and the curious role of EU farm policy in trade liberalization
By: Carsten Daugbjerg and Alan Swinbank
Contributors: Swinbank, A. (Alan)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780199557752
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to agricultural exceptionalism in EU farm policy and the GATT; title: Ideas, institutions, and policy: a theoretical framework; title: WTO rules for agricultural trade: GATT 1947 and the URAA; title: Explaining the erosion of agricultural exceptionalism in the Uruguay Round; title: Dispute settlement and its implication for agricultural exceptionalism; title: EU agricultural institutions and the CAP: coping with GATT/WTO; title: Setting the limits: CAP reform and WTO farm trade rules; title: Beyond Doha: conclusions and prospects.