Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture

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英文名称：

Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture

作者：

Mary E. Burfisher; Elizabeth A. Jones

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=40918

关键词：

regional trade agreements;  global trade;  agricultural trade;  multilateral trade;  trade liberalization;  Uruguay Round; 

年份：

1998

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

150 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Regional trade agreements (RTA's) have become a fixture in the global trade arena. Their advocates contend that RTA's can serve as building blocks for multilateral trade liberalization. Their opponents argue that these trade pacts will divert trade from more efficient nonmember producing countries. U.S. agriculture can benefit from participating in RTA's and may lose when it does not. Agriculture is the source of most potential U.S. gains from RTA's. While the United States, as a global trader with diverse trade partners, can gain potentially more from global free trade than from RTA's, many recent RTA's have been more comprehensive in their liberalization of agricultural trade than the Uruguay Round. A strong multilateral process can help ensure that RTA's are trade creating, rather than protectionist. (Please also see Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture: An Overview).