Product Description: The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO)...read more

Product Description: In both regional and multilateral trade negotiations farm trade issues have been by far the most contentious and difficult to conclude. WTO rules for agricultural trade have yet to be brought into line with those for other goods. As a result, legal agricultural trade disputes at the WTO account for about 40 per cent of cases to date, even though agriculture accounts for only seven per cent of international trade and five per cent of global output...read more

Product Description: Agriculture in the New Global Economy examines the extent to which the political economy of agriculture and the food chain is being transformed by globalisation. This book highlights the important changes that have taken place in the agriculture and food system with the spread of globalisation to this traditionally local sector...read more

Product Description: Guarding the safety of a nation's food supply, ensuring quality, and providing information to consumers so that they can make informed food purchase choices are widely accepted as universal obligations of governments. But differences in the way that governments fulfill these obligations can lead to trade conflicts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An analysis of domestic policy reform in the US and the EU, agricultural trade policy reform in the GATT/WTO, the interplay between US and EU reforms and the linkage between domestic policy reform and trade policy reform. The analytical framework employed builds on one employed in the authors' previous research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Josling, Timothy Edward (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Describes and analyzes attempts to make trade in agricultural products less distorted, more stable and predictable, and less of a source of political friction between nations. These attempts were made in successive rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade during the 45-year period from GATT's inception in 1947 to the end of the Uruguay Round in 1993...read more

Product Description: An important book.