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Opportunity  of a Century  to Liberalise  Farm Trade
 Rapporteurs' report with a  Chairman’s Statement by  Clayton Yeutter

Cordell Hull Institute.s meeting at Airlie House, Virginia,  May 2002

 Prepared by Andrew Stoeckel, Centre for International Economics

RIRDC Publication No. 02/126    RIRDC Project No. CIE-13A

Foreword
In Doha, Qatar, last November, the World Trade Organzation launched a new ‘round’ of multilateral trade negotiations. The central issue is to advance the liberalisation of agricultural trade beyond the agreement reached in the Uruguay Round negotiations of 1986–1994. Launching these negotiations is one thing. It is quite another thing to shift minds and build the consensus needed to make significant inroads into high agricultural protection.

 Significant thought will be required to resolve issues that block progress towards reform if the Doha Round discussions are to be a success. In May this year, the Cordell Hull Institute, in Washington, convened a high-level meeting of specialists on trade, agriculture and development from the United States, Australia and a few other countries. The retreat was held at Airlie House, near Warrenton, Virginia.

 To ensure that the views and ideas raised at the meeting make the maximum contribution to building a consensus on the need for global agricultural trade reform, RIRDC commissioned this review of the discussion for publication along with the chairman’s statement by Clayton Yeutter that was produced after the meeting. This report has been timed to coincide with the meeting of the Cairns Group Farm Leaders meeting in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in October 2002.

 This publication forms part of our Global Competitiveness R&D Program, which aims to identify important impedi ments to the development of a globally competitive agricultural sector and support research that will lead options and strategies.

 This publication is the eleventh in a series of studies by RIRDC into the problem of agricultural protection. Other studies, including Preferential Trade and Developing Countries: Bad Aid, Bad Trade and Solving the Problem: A Look at the Political Economy of Agricultural Reform, are available from RIRDC’s website www.rirdc.gov.au.

Simon Hearn
Managing Director
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
 
 

 

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