出版社：United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
摘要：The last round of multilateral trade negotiations, the Uruguay Round of
1986-94, resulted in the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
and the adoption of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), which subjects
agricultural trade to stronger international disciplines. Though agricultural
tariffs were bound to maximum applicable levels and reductions negotiated,
agricultural tariffs remain a major distorting feature of international trade,
and their global average is ten times the level of industrial tariffs (Gibson et
al., 2001). Tariff rates are highly uneven across both countries and products,
with many countries having bound a large proportion of their agricultural
tariffs at low or duty-free levels while maintaining tariff peaks (megatariffs),
often in excess of 100 percent, on import-sensitive products.
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