WTO: Competing Policy Issues
and Agendas for Agricultural Trade
Washington D.C. Sept. 17, 2003

USDA's Economic Research Service, in collaboration with Farm Foundation, present this conference to examine trade policy issues that could reshape global agricultural markets. Here is the final conference program. Speakers papers and presentations are posted below.

Keynote Address

Ambassador Allen F. Johnson, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: Agriculture Negotiations
WTO and Competing Trade Policy Agendas

Paul Drazek, DTB Associates, LLP: WTO and Competing Policy Issues

Wolfgang Munch, European Commission: Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform, EU Enlargement and the WTO

Timothy E. Josling, Food Research Institute, Stanford University: WTO and Developing Countries

Discussant, Debra H. Henke, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service

Emerging Issues Affecting Trade Policy

Jeffrey Lewis, World Bank: Globalization and Trade Policy, based on the World Bank report "Global Economic Prospects"

Sarah Fogarty Thorn, Grocery Manufacturers of America: Labeling As A Technical Barrier to Trade

William A. Kerr, University of Saskatchewan: Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling: Its Economics and Trade Policy Implications
and Power Point presentation

Discussant: David Blanford, Penn State University
Luncheon speaker Greg Frazier, International Dairy Foods Association: Beyond Cancun—What Next for the Doha Development Agenda?
Preview of Trade Policy Data and Studies on the Effects of Trade Liberalization

Sherman Robinson, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Mary Burfisher, ERS, and Karen Theirfelder, U.S. Naval Academy: Modeling OECD Agricultural Programs in a Global Context
and PowerPoint presentation

Terry Roe, University of Minnesota, Agapi Somwaru, ERS; and Xinshen Diao, IFPRI: Developing Country Aspects to Trade Policy Analysis: Does One Size Fit All? and PowerPoint presentation

John T. Wainio and Paul R. Gibson, ERS: Agricultural Trade Policy Data
Powerpoint presentation
Role of Economic Analysis in Trade Policy

Dan Sumner, University of California-Davis: Experience of the Last Round
PowerPoint presentation

Martin Banse, Göttingen University: CAP and EU Enlargement
and PowerPoint presentation

Michael J. Ferrantino, U.S. International Trade Commission, Office of Economics: Analytical Approaches to Quantifying Economic Effects of Non-Tariff Measures
and PowerPoint presentation
Round Table Wrap-up

Tom Hertel, Purdue University

David Abler, Penn State University

Karl Mielke, Guelph University

Eduardo Santos, Embassy of Chile

James Rude, Manitoba University

Harry Baumes, Global Insight