World Trade in Agriculture Products : Liberalization Process and Its Environment

Developed countries still dominate international markets in agriculture products although recently several developing countries threatened their position. At the same time, the GATT/WTO community agreed to start liberalizing agricultural trade. At first, in the Uruguay Round some general conditions and foundations for negotiations were formulated. The real talks started during Doha Round becoming soon its most controversial issue and they were indeterminably suspended in July 2006. There were at least two main reasons of this deadlock: first, protection in different countries is still difficult to compare, second, there is no significant progress in agricultural policy in the USA, in the UE-25 and in Japan.Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk