Agriculture in the GATT

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. The GATT’s Origins and Early Years

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 1-20

3. Early Encounters: 1948–60

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 21-41

4. The Dillon Round

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 42-51

5. The Kennedy Round

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 52-71

6. The Tokyo Round

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 72-100

7. Markets, Policies, and Trade Rules in Crisis: 1979–86

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 101-132

8. The Uruguay Round Negotiations

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 133-174

9. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture

   • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

   Pages 175-216

10. The Future for Agriculture in the GATT

    • Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, T. K. Warley

    Pages 217-243

11. Back Matter

    Pages 244-298

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Trade in temperate zone farm products between the developed countries has been beset with problems since the GATT's inception in 1947. The basic problem was always that the conditions in world agricultural markets were distorted by the national agricultural policies followed by all developed countries - policies which national authorities were reluctant to adapt to conform with the requirements of a liberal international trading system for agricultural products. This book describes and analyses 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 analyses the development of international trade policy throughout the post-war period, particular attention is given to the Kennedy, Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds of GATT negotiations in which the problems of trade in agricultural products were confronted.

• agriculture
• international trade
• trade policy

• Food Research Institute, Stanford University, USA

  Timothy E. Josling

• University of Göttingen, Germany

  Stefan Tangermann

• University of Guelph, Canada

  T. K. Warley

TIMOTHY E. JOSLING
STEFAN TANGERMANN
T.K.WARLEY

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