Possibilities and tasks of economic partnerships in east Asian agriculture
2006
Kiminami, L.Y.(Niigata Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture) | Kiminami, A.
In recent decades, international trade liberalization has been advanced under the WTO non-discriminatory principle according to the consideration that a free trade system will give positive impacts on global economic welfare. However, the new round negotiations between member countries has a rough going as shown by the failure of the Hong Kong meeting of WTO ministers in December 2005, not all significant economies are ready to negotiate on dismantling politically sensitive border barriers in the WTO. On the other hand, more than 180 bilateral and sub-regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs) had been completed in the world by the year of 2005. The motives of PTAs are considered as follows: the less negotiating time compared to that of WTO, and the possibility of making some new rules which are not included in WTO principles, etc. This paper will clarify the possibilities of economic partnerships in East Asian agriculture by over viewing current situation in this region around FTAs. It will also point out the impacts that PTAs will give to the domestic industries, and the difficulties that regional economic cooperation in agricultural sector will face through a questionnaire survey on the agricultural economists of Japan, China and South Korea who are considered to have strong influences on their domestic agricultural policies. Some policy implications on the tasks of regional cooperation will be drawn as well
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