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Tariff Negotiations and Renegotiations under the GATT and the WTO
  • Procedures and Practices
  • 2nd edition
  • Anwarul Hoda
  • Published online:
    09 November 2018
    Print publication:
    29 November 2018
  • Over the past seven decades, since the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was established in 1947, there has been a phenomenal increase in international trade in goods, largely due to sustained efforts by the world's main trading nations to reduce and eliminate tariff barriers in a multilaterally orchestrated manner. This publication reviews how the procedures and practices relating to tariff negotiations and renegotiations have evolved over this time. In particular, this new edition recounts how negotiations to expand the duty-free coverage of the Information Technology Agreement were concluded and provides an account of tariff renegotiations regarding successive enlargements of the European Union. It also covers tariff negotiations for the accession of a number of new members to the WTO, such as China and Russia. This book will be of particular interest to negotiators, members of government, trade ministries, economists and academics specialized in trade policy.

  • Foreword

  • Edited by Surabhi Mittal, Senior Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Deepti Sethi, Research Assistant at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
  • Book:
    Policy Options to Achieve Food Security in South Asia
    Published by:
    Foundation Books
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    02 June 2011, pp ix-x

  • Summary

    The position of South Asia in food security is quite unique as the sub-region is a major producer of food grains in the world and at the same time accounts for a large section of global impoverished population. The sub-region is home to 1 billion living on US$ 2/day (out of the total population of 1.5 billion) and has the highest concentration of malnourished people at 331 million. FAO estimates indicate that by the end of 2010, Asia will account for about half of the world's malnourished population, of which two-thirds will be from South Asia, making malnourishment the biggest challenge to food security in the sub-region. All efforts need to be made to provide support at the regional level to bolster national food security efforts. Regional integration and collective action to foster inter-country partnerships are needed to solve regional food shortages.

    This book pulls together all the critical issues relating to food security that individual South Asian countries are facing. The distinguishing feature of this book is that it focuses on the need for increased agricultural trade among these countries as a way of achieving food security rather than on initiatives like SAARC Food Bank. The articles in the volume identify the status of food security in each country and showcase and analyze government initiatives to address the problem, and the recommendations on policy measures in the book are derived from these analyses.