Environmental Impacts of Multilateral Agricultural Trade Liberalisation on Arable Crops

The URAA marked an historic point in the reform of the agricultural trading system (OECD, 2001f Diakosavvas, 2004). The URAA imposed disciplines on trade-distorting domestic policies, and quantitative constraints were agreed for market access, domestic support and export subsidies. Notwithstanding the progress that has been made in liberalising agricultural trade, the level of support to producers of certain arable crops remains high. In many OECD countries, there is a wide range of agricultural and trade policies that affect the arable crop sector – domestic support, import tariffs and export subsidies...