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One of the great achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations was the bringing of agricultural policies under much greater multilateral discipline through the new World Trade Organization. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (“URAA”) led to the conversion of non-tariff barriers to agricultural imports into bound tariffs, and those bound tariffs were scheduled for phased reductions, as were farm production and export subsidies, between 1995 and 2000 (or 2004 in the case of developing countries).
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Anderson, K. (2005). Agriculture. In: Macrory, P.F.J., Appleton, A.E., Plummer, M.G. (eds) The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22688-5_42
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