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International Trade Rules and the Agricultural Sector

Year of publication 2007

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 445

Author Mosoti, V.; Gobena, A.;Legal and Ethics Office

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title FAO Legislative Study

Series number 98

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), there have been significant changes in the legal and institutional landscape of many developing countries. Whatever the motivation for trade-related legal reform, our experience in the FAO Legal Office has been that besides the substantial costs involved, there are many challenges to successful and meaningful legal and institutional reforms. Legal drafters must therefore be well aware of the existing legal and administrativ e culture. They must also have a realistic appreciation of the resource constraints in the country, for inadequate resources certainly restrict the ability of implementing bodies to put new rules into practice. This study is about the nature and extent of these trade-related legal and institutional reforms with a particular focus on those of direct relevance to the agricultural sector. In addition to the sectoral focus on agriculture, the study places distinct emphasis on the challen ges of developing countries in the implementation of trade-related international obligations in the agricultural sector. It derives from FAOs experience in advising countries on the implementation of agriculture-related WTO agreements, key elements of which are discussed and illustrated by three representative case studies.

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