The Future of Preferential Trade Arrangements for Developing Countries and
the Current Round of WTO Negotiations on Agriculture
Table of Contents
by
Stefan Tangermann
Institute of Agricultural Economics
University of Göttingen
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED
NATIONS
Rome, 2002
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Acknowledgements
Executive Summary and
Recommendations
1.
Introduction
2. The Nature of Major Preferential
Arrangements
3. Conceptualising Trade Preferences
as an Element of Economic Relations between Developing and Developed
Countries
4. The Benefits of Trade
Preferences
5. The Costs of Trade
Preferences
6. The Status of Trade Preferences
in WTO
7. Options for the Future of Trade
Preferences in WTO
8. Erosion of Preference Margins: is
there a Case for Compensation?
8.1. When do MFN tariff reductions not result in
erosion of preferential tariff margins?
8.2. Offsetting market effects
8.3 When and how to Compensate?
9. Conclusions
References
Appendix: An Algebraic Model of the Price and Quantity Effects of Trade Preferences and MFN Tariff Reductions