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Agricultural Trade Conference

On September 17, 2003, ERS and the Farm Foundation cosponsored a one-day conference on "WTO: Competing Policy Issues and Agendas for Agricultural Trade." The conference brought together over 140 researchers, policymakers, and industry representatives to discuss issues surrounding the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks and the role of economic analysis in trade policy.

 

Executive Summary

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Program

8:30-8:45 Welcome

Neil Conklin

ERS Market and Trade Economics Division Director

Steve Halbrook
Farm Foundation Vice President

  Keynote
8:45-9:15 Ambassador Allen F. Johnson Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Agriculture Negotiations

9:15-10:45 WTO and Competing Trade Policy Agendas

Speaker

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Topic

The presentations and papers can be found on the Farm Foundation website.

Neil Conklin Chair      
Paul Drazek DTB Associates, LLP WTO and Competing Policy Issues
Wolfgang Munch European Commission Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform, Enlargement, and the WTO
Timothy E. Josling Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Developing Countries and the WTO

Debra D. Henke,

Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA Discussant
 
  Emerging Issues Affecting Trade Policy
 
Speaker
     
11:00-12:30
John Dunmore
Chair
   
World Bank
Border Protection of Agriculture: The Unfinished Agenda
Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA)
Labeling as a Technical Barrier to Trade
University of Saskatchewan
Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling (MCOOL): Its Economics and Trade Policy Implications

David Blandford

Pennsylvania State University
Discussant
  Lunch at ERS
 
Speaker
     
12:30-1:30

Greg Frazier

International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) Beyond Cancun: What Next for the Doha Development Agenda?
  Preview of Trade Policy Data and Studies on the Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture
 
Speaker
     
1:30-2:30 Suchada Langley Chair      
Sherman Robinson International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Modeling Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Agricultural Programs in a Global Context
Mary Burfisher ERS
Karen Thierfelder U.S. Naval Academy (USNA)
Terry Roe University of Minnesota Developing Country Aspects to Trade Policy Analysis: Does One Size Fit All?
Agapi Somwaru ERS
Xinshen Diao International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
John Wainio ERS Agricultural Trade Policy Data
  The Role of Economic Analysis in Trade Policy
 
Speaker
Topic
   
2:30-4:00
Michael Keenan Chair  
Dan Sumner University of California-Davis Lessons for Emperical Analysis to Support Trade Negotiations
Martin Banse University of Göttingen CAP and Enlargement
Michael Ferrantino U.S. International Trade Commission Analytical Approaches to Quantifying Economic Effects of Non-Tariff Measures

Greg Pompelli

ERS Discussant    
  Round Table Wrap-Up
 
Speaker
4:15-5:15 Mary Bohman Chair    
         
Panel        
Tom Hertel Purdue University    
David Abler Pennsylvania State University    
Karl Meilke Guelph University
   
Eduardo Santos Embassy of Chile    
James Rude Manitoba University    
Harry Baumes Global Insight    
  Closing
 
Speaker
5:15 Mary Bohman ERS      
Steve Halbrook Farm Foundation      

Conference Organizers

Suchada Langley
phone: (202) 694-5331

Jonn Dunmore
phone: (202) 694-5204
Bill Chambers
phone: (202) 694-5312
David Kelch
phone: (202) 694-5151

For more information, contact: Suchada Langley

Web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov

Updated date: October 27, 2003