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Agriculture Trade Agreements: Selected Implementation Issues

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 26, 1998
Report No. T-NSIAD-98-106
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Summary:

Both the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the North American Free Trade Agreement included provisions to reduce agricultural trade barriers. If properly implemented, these measures should help liberalize global agricultural trade and provide the United States with substantial benefits. However, several challenges exist, particularly in organizing an effective approach on the part of the federal government to monitor and strengthen compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary measures--actions taken by foreign governments to protect against food-borne pests and diseases--and to mitigate the effects of state trading enterprises on U.S. farmers.

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