Author: James D. Gaisford
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Provides an analytical framework for examining economic issues which arise in international trade negotiations. This framework is developed using examples from current contentious issues in the international trade in agricultural products, including market access, subsidies, non-tariff barriers, health regulations, and biotechnology. There is special emphasis on the issue of genetically modified products. Material is accessible to readers with a solid grasp of basic economic principles. Of interest to academics specializing in international trade, international relations, agri-business, and international business. Gaisford teaches economics at the University of Calgary. Kerr teaches at the University of Saskatchewan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Economic Analysis for International Trade Negotiations
Author: James D. Gaisford
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Provides an analytical framework for examining economic issues which arise in international trade negotiations. This framework is developed using examples from current contentious issues in the international trade in agricultural products, including market access, subsidies, non-tariff barriers, health regulations, and biotechnology. There is special emphasis on the issue of genetically modified products. Material is accessible to readers with a solid grasp of basic economic principles. Of interest to academics specializing in international trade, international relations, agri-business, and international business. Gaisford teaches economics at the University of Calgary. Kerr teaches at the University of Saskatchewan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Provides an analytical framework for examining economic issues which arise in international trade negotiations. This framework is developed using examples from current contentious issues in the international trade in agricultural products, including market access, subsidies, non-tariff barriers, health regulations, and biotechnology. There is special emphasis on the issue of genetically modified products. Material is accessible to readers with a solid grasp of basic economic principles. Of interest to academics specializing in international trade, international relations, agri-business, and international business. Gaisford teaches economics at the University of Calgary. Kerr teaches at the University of Saskatchewan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
International Agricultural Trade Disputes
Author: Andrew Schmitz
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552381528
Category : Dispute resolution (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Trade disputes between the United States, Canada, and Mexico surrounding agricultural products are widespread and show no signs of abating. A recent conference held in Florida in 2003 that included lawyers, economists, and private sector representatives examined the issues surrounding trade disputes in industries such as lumber, live cattle, and wheat and dairy products. International Agricultural Trade Disputes: Case Studies in North America presents the findings of this conference and analyzes trade disputes and relevant trade issues from 1995 to 2003.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552381528
Category : Dispute resolution (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Trade disputes between the United States, Canada, and Mexico surrounding agricultural products are widespread and show no signs of abating. A recent conference held in Florida in 2003 that included lawyers, economists, and private sector representatives examined the issues surrounding trade disputes in industries such as lumber, live cattle, and wheat and dairy products. International Agricultural Trade Disputes: Case Studies in North America presents the findings of this conference and analyzes trade disputes and relevant trade issues from 1995 to 2003.
Food Fights over Free Trade
Author: Christina L. Davis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400841399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups. Historically, agriculture stands out as a sector in which countries stubbornly defend domestic programs, and agricultural issues have been the most frequent source of trade disputes in the postwar trading system. While much protection remains, agricultural trade negotiations have resulted in substantial concessions as well as negotiation collapses. Food Fights over Free Trade shows that the liberalization that has occurred has been due to the role of international institutions. Christina Davis examines the past thirty years of U.S. agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe based on statistical analysis of an original dataset, case studies, and in-depth interviews with over one hundred negotiators and politicians. She shows how the use of issue linkage and international law in the negotiation structure transforms narrow interest group politics into a more broad-based decision process that considers the larger stakes of the negotiation. Even when U.S. threats and the spiraling budget costs of agricultural protection have failed to bring policy change, the agenda, rules, and procedures of trade negotiations have often provided the necessary leverage to open Japanese and European markets. This book represents a major contribution to understanding the negotiation process, agricultural politics, and the impact of international institutions on domestic politics.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400841399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups. Historically, agriculture stands out as a sector in which countries stubbornly defend domestic programs, and agricultural issues have been the most frequent source of trade disputes in the postwar trading system. While much protection remains, agricultural trade negotiations have resulted in substantial concessions as well as negotiation collapses. Food Fights over Free Trade shows that the liberalization that has occurred has been due to the role of international institutions. Christina Davis examines the past thirty years of U.S. agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe based on statistical analysis of an original dataset, case studies, and in-depth interviews with over one hundred negotiators and politicians. She shows how the use of issue linkage and international law in the negotiation structure transforms narrow interest group politics into a more broad-based decision process that considers the larger stakes of the negotiation. Even when U.S. threats and the spiraling budget costs of agricultural protection have failed to bring policy change, the agenda, rules, and procedures of trade negotiations have often provided the necessary leverage to open Japanese and European markets. This book represents a major contribution to understanding the negotiation process, agricultural politics, and the impact of international institutions on domestic politics.
Why Adjudicate?
Author: Christina L. Davis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842514
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade disputes in the WTO rather than settling their differences on their own? In Why Adjudicate?, Christina Davis investigates the domestic politics behind the filing of WTO complaints and reveals why formal dispute settlement creates better outcomes for governments and their citizens. Davis demonstrates that industry lobbying, legislative demands, and international politics influence which countries and cases appear before the WTO. Democratic checks and balances bias the trade policy process toward public lawsuits and away from informal settlements. Trade officials use legal complaints to manage domestic politics and defend trade interests. WTO dispute settlement enables states and domestic groups to signal resolve more effectively, thereby enhancing the information available to policymakers and reducing the risk of a trade war. Davis establishes her argument with data on trade disputes and landmark cases, including the Boeing-Airbus controversy over aircraft subsidies, disagreement over Chinese intellectual property rights, and Japan's repeated challenges of U.S. steel industry protection. In her analysis of foreign trade barriers against U.S. exports, Davis explains why the United States gains better outcomes for cases taken to formal dispute settlement than for those negotiated. Case studies of Peru and Vietnam show that legal action can also benefit developing countries.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842514
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade disputes in the WTO rather than settling their differences on their own? In Why Adjudicate?, Christina Davis investigates the domestic politics behind the filing of WTO complaints and reveals why formal dispute settlement creates better outcomes for governments and their citizens. Davis demonstrates that industry lobbying, legislative demands, and international politics influence which countries and cases appear before the WTO. Democratic checks and balances bias the trade policy process toward public lawsuits and away from informal settlements. Trade officials use legal complaints to manage domestic politics and defend trade interests. WTO dispute settlement enables states and domestic groups to signal resolve more effectively, thereby enhancing the information available to policymakers and reducing the risk of a trade war. Davis establishes her argument with data on trade disputes and landmark cases, including the Boeing-Airbus controversy over aircraft subsidies, disagreement over Chinese intellectual property rights, and Japan's repeated challenges of U.S. steel industry protection. In her analysis of foreign trade barriers against U.S. exports, Davis explains why the United States gains better outcomes for cases taken to formal dispute settlement than for those negotiated. Case studies of Peru and Vietnam show that legal action can also benefit developing countries.
Agriculture in the GATT
Author: Timothy Edward Josling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"This book describes and analyzes the attempts that were made to make trade in agriculture less distorted, more stable and predictable, and less of a dangerous source of political friction between nations, in successive rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the 45-year period from GATT's inception in 1947 to the end of the Uruguay Round in 1993. While the book analyzes the development of international trade policy throughout the postwar period, particular attention is given to the Kennedy, Tokyo and Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations in which the problems of trade in agricultural products were confronted." "For each round, the positions of major participants in international arrangements that should govern trade in agriculture, the contending proposals, and the results of the negotiations are explained and analyzed. However, the specific issues and positions on agricultural trade are set in the broader context of changing international political relations, developments in the international and national economies, the conditions in international food markets, and the evolution of 'domestic' agricultural policies in the major countries and regional groupings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"This book describes and analyzes the attempts that were made to make trade in agriculture less distorted, more stable and predictable, and less of a dangerous source of political friction between nations, in successive rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the 45-year period from GATT's inception in 1947 to the end of the Uruguay Round in 1993. While the book analyzes the development of international trade policy throughout the postwar period, particular attention is given to the Kennedy, Tokyo and Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations in which the problems of trade in agricultural products were confronted." "For each round, the positions of major participants in international arrangements that should govern trade in agriculture, the contending proposals, and the results of the negotiations are explained and analyzed. However, the specific issues and positions on agricultural trade are set in the broader context of changing international political relations, developments in the international and national economies, the conditions in international food markets, and the evolution of 'domestic' agricultural policies in the major countries and regional groupings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation
Author: G. S. Bhalla, Jean-Luc Racine, Frédéric Landy
Publisher: Les Editions de la MSH
ISBN: 2735113787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.
Publisher: Les Editions de la MSH
ISBN: 2735113787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.
Agricultural Trade Policy and Food Security in the Caribbean
Author: Deep Ford
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251057476
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Agricultural trade is a major factor determining food security in Caribbean countries. In these small open economies, exports are essential, whilst imports provide a large part of the food supply. This book examines various dimensions of trade policy and related issues and suggests policies to address trade and food security and rural development linkages. It is as a guide and reference documents for agricultural trade policy analysts, trade negotiators, policy-makers and planners in both the public and private sectors.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251057476
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Agricultural trade is a major factor determining food security in Caribbean countries. In these small open economies, exports are essential, whilst imports provide a large part of the food supply. This book examines various dimensions of trade policy and related issues and suggests policies to address trade and food security and rural development linkages. It is as a guide and reference documents for agricultural trade policy analysts, trade negotiators, policy-makers and planners in both the public and private sectors.
U.S. Trade Policy
Author: William Anthony Lovett
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765603241
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A critical review of recent U.S. trade policies that have failed to enforce sufficient reciprocity and overall trade balance, with suggestions for policies that foster a more balanced and realistic pattern of world trade growth.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765603241
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A critical review of recent U.S. trade policies that have failed to enforce sufficient reciprocity and overall trade balance, with suggestions for policies that foster a more balanced and realistic pattern of world trade growth.
OECD Insights International Trade Free, Fair and Open?
Author: Love Patrick
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926406026X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Argues that prosperity has rarely, if ever, been achieved or sustained without trade. Trade alone, however, is not enough; policies targeting employment, education, health and other issues are also needed to promote well-being and tackle the challenges of a globalised economy.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926406026X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Argues that prosperity has rarely, if ever, been achieved or sustained without trade. Trade alone, however, is not enough; policies targeting employment, education, health and other issues are also needed to promote well-being and tackle the challenges of a globalised economy.
The World Trade Organization
Author: Mitsuo Matsushita
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199571856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview of the law and practice of the World Trade Organization. It begins with the institutional law of the WTO, moving eventually to the consequences of globalization. New chapters on Trade in Agriculture and on Government Procurement and Trade.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199571856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview of the law and practice of the World Trade Organization. It begins with the institutional law of the WTO, moving eventually to the consequences of globalization. New chapters on Trade in Agriculture and on Government Procurement and Trade.