Globalization and Agricultural Trade Policy

At the outset of a new round of World Trade Organization talks, agricultural issues remain bitterly contested. In this volume, international experts provide fresh insights on topics that agribusinesses, producer organizations, governments, and scholars must respond to as negotiations progress.

The authors cogently discuss rapidly evolving environmental policies; state trading enterprises and their impact on international prices and competitiveness; regional trade agreements; and the influence of the WTO on rural development policy, consumer protection regulation, and the structuring of health measures worldwide. The result is a thoughtful assessment of how new global policies are affecting—and will affect—both states and markets.

• Introduction—the Editors.
• THE ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURAL TRADE.
• Agricultural Trade and the Environment: Issues and Challenges—C.F. Runge.
• Climate Change and the Kyoto Accord: Implications for Trade Agreements—R. Gray.
• The World Trade Organization and the Environment—W.A. Kerr.
• Agricultural Biotechnology, the Environment, and International Trade Regulation: Your Place or Mine?—P.W.B. Phillips and D. Buckingham.
• STATE TRADING ENTERPRISES AND THE WTO.
• Implications for State Trading in the Next WTO Negotiations—W.M. Miner.
• State Trading Enterprises, Price Discrimination, and the WTO—T. Schmitz and A. Schmitz.
• State Trading Enterprises: Importing vs. Exporting—P. Abbott and L. Young.
• The Competitive Impacts of State Trading Enterprises—M. Fulton, B. Larue, and M. Veeman.
• REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS.
• Regional Trade Agreements and Agriculture: A Post-Seattle Assessment—T. Josling.
• The EU and Eastern Europe—A. Swinback and C. Tanner.
• APEC and Agriculture: Integrating Liberalization and Capacity-Building Policies—J. Gilbert, R. Scollay, and T. Wahl.
• NONTRADE CONCERNS.
• Multifunctionality: An Examination of the Issues and Remedies—J. Rude.
• Rural Policy—K.J. Thomson.
• Labeling and Consumer Issues in International Trade—J.E. Hobbs.
• The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: A Catalyst for Regulatory Reform?—D. Roberts.
• CONCLUSION.
• The Future of Agricultural Trade—the Editors.