Global agriculture and the Doha Round: market access is the key
2006
A. Effland | M.A. Normile | J. Wainio
Agricultural tariffs have proved one of the most difficult areas under World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations but, the Economic Research Service argues here, tariff reductions that improve market access are key to achieving the benefits of trade liberalisation. Research by the ERS suggests that: as a group, developing countries should gain from cuts in bound tariffsin general, the trade gains from preferential trade programmes tend to be concentrated among higher income developing countries, which include some of the world’s largest agricultural tradersless developed countries (LDCs) are expected to be more vulnerable to increased competition if bound tariffs are cutThese webpages set out the basic outlines of the argument for reducing tariffs, provides links to additional resources and comments on the likely impacts of proposed reduction methods. Links are also provided to the two reports from which this article is drawn.
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