The WTO and Agriculture

In both regional and multilateral trade negotiations farm trade issues have been by far the most contentious and difficult to conclude.

WTO rules for agricultural trade have yet to be brought into line with those for other goods.

As a result, legal agricultural trade disputes at the WTO account for about 40 per cent of cases to date, even though agriculture accounts for only seven per cent of international trade and five per cent of global output.

This authoritative and timely collection presents the most important published articles on this subject. 39 articles, dating from 1945 to 2003