WTO Disciplines on Agricultural Support: Seeking a Fair Basis for Trade
本书由David Orden等人编辑，系统审视WTO《农业协定》中的国内支持纪律及其在多哈回合谈判中的强化潜力，并评估欧盟、美国、日本、挪威、巴西、印度、中国和菲律宾等国的农业支持通报情况。
Most nations provide some level of support to their agricultural sectors. Different types of support can affect producers and consumers both in the supporting and in other countries. A key pillar of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture limits trade-distorting agricultural domestic support. As such, measures of domestic agricultural support are highly contested in the negotiation of trade agreements. This book, edited by David Orden, David Blandford and Tim Josling, examines the Agreement's domestic support disciplines and their potential strengthening under the as-yet-unfinished Doha Round negotiations. After an introductory chapter by the editors, there is a thorough and detailed presentation of the WTO disciplines on domestic support by Lars Brink. This chapter clearly illuminates the complexity of WTO domestic support issues. The core of the book focuses on the evolution of farm policies in four developed countries: the European Union (Tim Josling and Alan Swinbank), the United States (David Blandford and David Orden), Japan (Yoshihisa Godo and Daisuke Takahashi) and Norway (Ivar Gaasland, Roberto Garcia and Erling Vårdal); and four developing countries: Brazil (André Nassar), India (Munisamy Gopinath), China (Fuzhi Cheng) and the Philippines (Caesar B. Cororaton). An assessment is made of how they have notified their support – or could notify where there are missing submissions. Notifications even by the largest agricultural producing and trading countries have sometimes been delayed for many years. The timing and length of some delays appear to reflect strategic decisions, rather than lack of appropriate data.