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WTO: Competing Policy Issues & Agendas for Agricultural Trade
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. (04-17)
| 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 |
| 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 presentationTerry 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 |
| Role of Economic Analysis in Trade Pol | Dan Sumner, University of California-Davis: Experience of the Last Round PowerPoint presentationMartin Banse, Guttingen 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 |