Agriculture in the GATT negotiations: implications for developing countries. B. Discussion document
The discussion document refers to agriculture in the GATT negotiations and the implications for developing countries that typically have open economies in which agriculture is of substantial, if not dominant, importance. Protectionism vs liberalization is then referred to where the degree of protection given to agriculture in developed countries is significantly greater than that given to manufacturing. It adds that in most developing countries however, agriculture is usually taxed and manufacturing is protected from import competition. A few studies have assessed the effects of agricultural protection in developed countries on world market prices, export earnings, and import costs, and the resulting wellfare gains and losses of developed and developing countries. It explains that Latin America is not a homogeneous block of agricultural exporters shipping tropical raw materials to the industrial world. There are many countries, many commodities, as well as importers and exporters of both tropical and temperate zone goods, facing different levels of restrictions in terms of market access. It has been one of the objectives of the International Food Policy Research Institute studies on this topic to try to unravel the complex pattern of the incidence of agricltural protection in OECD countries on the developing countries. Finally, developing countries export revenues and imports are presented. (MIBA)
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San José (Costa Rica)
1988
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