Agriculture in the multilateral negotiations of the Doha Round and implications for Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Tatiana S. Fukuda
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Paula, Nilson M. de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Economia (Curitiba. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/economia/article/view/12297
• topic: agricultural trade; Doha Round; Brazilian agriculture; comércio agrícola; Rodada Doha; agricultura brasileira

This article aims to analyse the evolution of world trade, with emphasis negotiations, since GATT was created in 1948, through the current Doha round of WTO. The role of institutions in building a favourable environment for free trade, particularly in  agriculture, is stressed. After all, not only has the farming sector been crucial for the negotiations to succeed, but also for the trade relations of many developing countries, including Brazil. Besides, agriculture has been one of the most protected sectors in world trade and as such out of reach of GATT regulation until the conclusion of the Uruguay Round. Given that subsidies, tariffs and other mechanisms of protection still prevail in agricultural policies of some countries, this sector still remains as the deadlock of the unfinished Doha Round. That is why the previous expectations of progresses in trade liberalizationnegotiations carry on.