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N° 211 |
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| April 2002 |
| Market Access: The Objectives
after Doha |
Lionel Fontagné
Jean-Louis Guérin
Sébastien Jean |
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| After failure in Seattle, the Doha Conference
ended by establishing an agenda for a new round of multilateral trade liberalisation.
It covers negotiations aimed at progressively withdrawing policies distorting
agricultural trade, though progress in this field risks being limited. Under these
circumstances, improving market access for agricultural and industrial goods could
constitute the main area of progress in the new round. Although average levels
of protection are now relatively low, an analysis of 5000 products shows that
their dispersion and the presence of tariff peaks still create strong distortions.
The simulations carried out with the mirage model indicate that implementing the
Doha agenda in the field of market access could lead to gains that are twice as
important as those of the Marrakech agreement. The major share of these gains
is conditional on the inclusion of tariff peaks in the negotiations. |
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