King Cotton in international trade : : the political economy of dispute resolution at the WTO / / by Meredith A. Taylor Black.

• VerfasserIn: Taylor Black, Meredith A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: World Trade Institute Advanced Studies 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Notes: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Berne, Switzerland), 2010.

In King Cotton in International Trade Meredith A. Taylor Black provides a comprehensive analysis of the WTO Cotton dispute and its significant jurisprudential and negotiating effect on disciplining and containing the negative effects of highly trade-distorting agricultural subsidies of developed countries. To that end, this work details the historic, economic, and political background leading up to Brazil’s challenge of the US cotton subsidies and the main findings of the five WTO reports that largely upheld that challenge. It explores the impacts of the successful challenge in terms of political and negotiating dynamics involving agriculture subsidies and other trade-related issues in the WTO while examining the effects on domestic agriculture subsidy reforms in the United States and the European Union. Finally, this volume sets forth the possible impacts of the Cotton challenge on the negotiating end-game of the Doha Development Round.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Global Trade of Upland Cotton -- Political Economy of Agricultural Subsidy Programs -- wto Political Environment Prior to US-Upland Cotton Case -- Origins of Brazil’s US-Upland Cotton -- wto Dispute Settlement: Case Study on US-Upland Cotton -- US-Upland Cotton: Key Legal Findings as Precedent for Future wto Dispute Challenges to Agricultural Subsidies and Lessons Learned from the Involvement of Least Developed Countries -- Impact of US-Upland Cotton’s Legal Precedent on Negotiation Leverage within the Doha Development Agenda of the wto -- Political Limits on Implementation in the United States -- Effect of Non-Compliance by the us: Ethical Systematic Considerations -- Summation of Findings and Conclusion -- General References -- Index.