Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda

Download or read book Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda written by Merlinda D. Ingco and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating the liberalization of world agricultural trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is fraught with difficulty due to the complexity of the issues and the wide range of interests across countries. In the round of global trade negotiations under the WTO, different perspectives on trade reform have produced a highly contentious agenda. These issues are addressed from a range of perspectives in this survey of the trade agenda and its implications for both developing and developed countries. Agricultural trade specialists, including those in universities, in international organizations and think tanks, analyse a comprehensive range of topics including interests and options in the WTO trade negotiations, the trade agenda from a development patent perspective, WTO trade rules, trade barriers, tariff negotiations and patent protection for developing countries.