Trade Policy Made Easy

Rural Industry Adjustment to Trade Related Policy Reform   PDF [435KB]

Industry Adjustment to Policy Reform - A case study of the Australian dairy industry   PDF [361KB]

'Free' Trade Agreements: Making Them Better

Why market access reforms matter

A booklet bringing together pertinent research results from a variety of World Bank, IMF, Australian government (ABARE), WTO and UNCTAD  research publications, presented in a series of concise charts and  diagrams. Includes estimates of the levels of protection in different  groups of markets (industrialized and developing), the direction and composition of agricultural trade flows and projections of the impact of different approaches to agricultural trade liberalization, contrasting the impacts of cutting export subsidies and reducing market access  barriers

Copies of this publication (no. 04/110) can be downloaded from RIRDC
www.rirdc.gov.au

Opportunity of a Century to Liberalise Farm Trade

Rapporteurs' report with a statement by Clayton Yeutter
In Doha, Qatar, last November the World Trade Organisation launched a new 'round' of multilateral trade negotiations. The central issue liberalising agricultural trade. To discuss what has to be done to build consensus and support for this liberalisation, the Cordell Hull Institute convened in May an international meeting of trade, agriculture and development at Airlie House, Warrenton, in Virginia.

This rapportuers' report from the Centre for International Economics and Cordell Hull Institute summarised the proceedings.

The publication coincides with the 2002 meeting of the Cairns Group Farm Leaders in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. To encourage public debate on this neglected issue, the report and the chairman's statement, issued after the meeting, is published by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation as part of their Global Competitiveness R & D program.

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