Download or read book The Administration s Proposals for the Free Trade Area of the Americas and Its Impact on U S Agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Administration s Proposals for the Free Trade Area of the Americas and Its Impact on U S Agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Effects of an Implemented Free Trade Area of the Americas on Delta States Agriculture as Relates to Rice Cotton and Soybeans written by Matthew W. King and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Trade in the Free Trade Area of the Americas written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders of Western Hemisphere countries have agreed to negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement by 2005. FTAA's objective is to promote economic growth and democracy by eliminating barriers to trade in all goods (including agricultural and food products) and services, and to facilitate investment. If diplomats reach agreement, free trade in the hemisphere could occur by 2020. Negotiations on FTAA's agriculture component have become contentious. FTAA's negotiating objectives for agriculture call for removing tariffs and other barriers to agricultural imports in each country, developing disciplines on the use of export subsidies and other mechanisms that distort agricultural trade, and ensuring that rules on food safety and animal and plant health are not used as disguised trade barriers. Following an agreed-upon timetable, FTAA countries during 2003 exchanged detailed offers and counteroffers designed to reduce and eliminate tariffs and quotas on all traded goods. The agriculture chapter in the second draft consolidated text of an FTAA agreement issued in November 2002 continues to reflect differences in viewpoints among countries on substantive agricultural issues. Strong differences currently exist between the United States and Brazil over how to address in the FTAA the issue of domestic farm subsidies and agricultural export subsidies. This issue has become pivotal in efforts to reach an agreement on FTAA's scope (comprehensive or scaled back) in the period leading up to the FTAA Ministerial in Miami on November 17-21. Much of U.S. agricultural trade with Canada and Mexico already occurs free of barriers under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Accordingly, an FTAA would primarily affect U.S. agricultural trade with the countries of South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Sales to these three markets currently account for a small share (8%) of U.S. farm product exports. Agricultural imports from these three regions, by contrast, account for 17% of all such U.S. imports. A 1998 U.S. Department of Agriculture analysis finds that U.S. agriculture would benefit to some degree with U.S. participation in an FTAA that eliminates all tariffs throughout the region. According to this analysis, U.S. farm income would be $180 million (1%) higher than without an agreement, U.S. agricultural exports would increase by $580 million (1%), and U.S. agricultural imports would rise by $830 million (3%). Some agricultural product sectors expecting to gain from increased sales are supportive of the FTAA initiative. Others appear to be ambivalent, preferring instead that the Bush Administration place more emphasis on liberalizing agricultural trade on a multilateral basis under the WTO. Producers of import-sensitive food products (i.e., sugar and orange juice) are concerned about increased competition. They seek to be excluded from FTAA coverage or be covered by the longest transition periods possible. Under trade law, the Executive Branch must follow special consultation procedures with Congress on import-sensitive agricultural products covered by the FTAA agreement. This report will be updated periodically .

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Download or read book Free Trade Area of the Americas A Three Level Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Free Trade Area of the Americas is a proposed treaty that would encompass the Western Hemisphere 800 million people and a 13 trillion dollar economy. It is a regional agreement that cannot be understood without the interrelated issues at both the international and domestic level. The single most important issue that resides at the nexus of all three of these levels is domestic subsidies on agriculture. FTAA cannot move forward at the regional level without reduction in the U.S. domestic subsidies. The United States is not willing to reduce its domestic protection without reciprocal reductions from the European Union, specifically, France. Even if international agreement is reached, the domestic level interest group politics must be factored in. Furthermore, the clock is ticking at the domestic level with both the President's Trade Promotion Authority set to expire along with the Farm Bill in 2007. The final analysis will indicate international negotiations will not yield enough genuine concessions soon enough to break the regional level loggerheads and that domestic interest group politics will not allow unreciprocated unilateral reductions to break that stalemate either. Free Trade in the Western Hemisphere is, therefore, likely to continue to progress as a series of subregional and bilateral agreements.

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Download or read book Contemporary U S Latin American Relations written by Jorge I. Domínguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international system that have had significant effects in the Western Hemisphere, including issues of politics and economics, the securitization of U.S. foreign policy, balancing U.S. primacy, the wider impact of the world beyond the Americas, especially the rise of China, and the complexities of relationships between neighbors. The second edition of Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations focuses on U.S. neighbors near and far —Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Each chapter addresses a country’s relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that country’s bilateral relations as well as those themes that are more general to the relations of Latin America as a whole. The book also features new chapters on transnational criminal violence, the Latino diasporas in the United States, and U.S.-Latin American migration. This cohesive and accessible volume is required reading for Latin American politics students and scholars alike.

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