CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Hogan, Abby Elizabeth |
|---|---|
| Title | Transatlantic Frenemies: Why US and EU Agricultural Subsidies are the Focus of WTO Trade Disputes |
| Summary | Abstract: This essay examines the history of agricultural subsidies in the US and EU from the Uruguay Round to present, with a specific emphasis on trade conflict caused by agricultural subsidies and other agricultural products. By following the evolution of subsidies in the two trade powers, alongside the negotiations in the GATT (Uruguay Round) and the WTO (Doha Round), this essay seeks to understand how effective the WTO can be as a mechanism for reconciling differences between the US and EU to reduce trade conflict, specifically trade conflict caused by agricultural products (which are usually subsidized). While the Uruguay Round was highly successful for reaching agreements to make international trade in agricultural products more equitable, and for lessening the need to utilize the Dispute Settlement Body, the Doha Round has not been so successful. The Doha round is currently stalled on agricultural import tariffs, and neither the US nor the EU is willing to budge to reach an agreement. This essay proposes that agricultural imports unlike agricultural exports affect food consumption for developed nations such as the US and EU. Once economics begins to intersect with the anthropological notion of terroir, it can no longer be solved through mathematics and logic, as it is forced to compete with more emotional and nationalistic sentiments about the origins of a country’s food. These findings suggest that the WTO may have reached an impasse for its negotiations on agriculture. |
| Supervisor | Csaba, Laszlo |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/hogan_abby.pdf |
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