As a part of wto guidelines agreement on agriculture (aoa) doesn’t considerAgreement on Agriculture (Aoa) • May 24th, 2023
International treaty of the World Trade Organization The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO on January 1, 1995. History Origins The idea of replacing agricultural price support with direct payments to farmers decoupled from production dates back to the late 1950s, when the twelfth session of the GATT Contracting Parties selected a Panel of Experts chaired by Gottfried Haberler to examine the effect of agricultural protectionism, fluctuating commodity prices and the failure of export earnings to keep pace with import demand in developing countries. The 1958 Haberler Report stressed the importance of minimising the effect of agriculture subsidies on competitiveness and recommended replacing price support with direct supplementary payments not linked with production, anticipating discussio
APPENDIXAgreement on Agriculture (Aoa) • May 24th, 2017
The General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the precursor of the WTO, came into force in 1947 to regulate international trade. Unfortunately, the GATT rules were never effectively applied in respect of agricultural products. Thus before the Agreement on Agriculture came into force in 1995, there was no institutional mechanism existed to balance the policy interests of different countries. Against this background of “disarray” the GATT signatory counties embarked on the Uruguay Round of trade negotiation in 1986. The goal of the agricultural negotiations was to establish a fair and market oriented agriculture trading system - through strengthened and more operationally effective GATT rules and disciplines resulting in correcting and preventing restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), which came into force in 1995, represented the first occasion on which a clear set of rules was set up to cover agricultural trad
Agreement on Agriculture (AoA)Agreement on Agriculture (Aoa) • September 28th, 2006
Non-exhaustive list of such prohibited NTMs: Quotas, variable levies, minimum import prices, voluntary export restraints, similar border measures…
