Tariff Peaks for Agricultural and Food Products: their Incidence and Alternatives for their Removal
分析了乌拉圭回合后全球农产品市场准入现状，识别了存在关税高峰的商品组，并评估了不同关税削减公式的效果，发现高保护水平依然存在，只有更激进的协调公式才能实现真正自由化。
The aim of the paper is the analysis of the current market access situation in global agricultural markets for the post‐Uruguay Round period. It identifies those commodity groups in the food and agricultural sector for which tariff peaks exist, and examines how various tariff‐cutting formulae would affect their levels. The related issues of tariff complexity and of the administration of Tariff Rate Quotas are also reviewed here. Results show that the implementation of the Uruguay Round agreement has not significantly reduced agricultural protection, since high tariff peaks and nontransparent tariff structures still persist. A repetition of the Uruguay Round cuts would not solve the problem of high protection levels either, and only the introduction of more aggressive harmonising formulae could lead to a true liberalisation of world agricultural and food markets.