Figuring Out the Doha Round

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, Woan Foong Wong

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The Doha Round marked its eighth birthday in November 2009, making it the longest running multilateral trade negotiation in the postwar era. Doha participants continue to disagree about prospective liberalization of agriculture and manufactures and have barely begun to consider reductions in barriers to trade in services. Negotiators have missed every deadline to conclude the talks, leading some to question the viability of the entire venture. After nearly nine years of inconclusive meetings, the trade talks are at a tipping point: A global trade deal is still possible with renewed political commitment to trade reform, but continued drift could result in the first outright failure of a multilateral trade round in the postwar era.

This policy analysis shows that the Doha Round can still be successfully concluded with a concerted push by the major trading nations. Contrary to the Doha doomsayers, the potential gains from proposals now on the table are significant, albeit not sufficient to close a deal. The authors estimate the trade gains and GDP gains from a prospective Doha deal that "tops up" existing commitments to liberalize agriculture, manufactures, and services. They also suggest what each of the major trading nations needs to do to ensure the successful completion of a Doha package that is both ambitious and balanced between the interests of developed and developing countries.

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Non-Fiction Economics International Economics International Trade Trade Agreements Macroeconomics Politics & Government International Relations Business & Management International Business Political Economy

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Overview	p. 1
United States	p. 8
European Union	p. 9
Japan	p. 11
Brazil, India, and China	p. 12
Comparing Gains for Developed and Developing Countries	p. 13
	p. 14
Agriculture and Nonagricultural Market Access	p. 17
Results for Agriculture	p. 18
Results for Nonagricultural Market Access	p. 30
	p. 37
Topping up the Doha Package	p. 81
Services	p. 81
Chemicals	p. 86
Information Technology and Electronics/Electrical Goods	p. 90
Environmental Goods	p. 96
Trade Facilitation	p. 101
Conclusion	p. 105
Methodology for Reciprocity Measure and GDP Gains	p. 109
Services	p. 117
Chemicals	p. 129
Information Technology and Electronics/Electrical Goods	p. 139
Environmental Goods	p. 177
Trade Facilitation	p. 189
Measuring Trade Distortions	p. 205
References	p. 209
Index	p. 215
Tables
Trade gains for sample countries	p. 6
Total trade gains, with exports to the world	p. 8
Impact of trade gains on GDP	p. 10
Comparison between sample and G-20 countries, 2008	p. 14
Tariffs in agriculture	p. 19
Bound and applied tariff rates in agriculture imposed by Brazil, China, and India on imports from the group of 15 developing countries in the sample	p. 24
Gains in agriculture and NAMA expressed in terms of the reciprocity measure	p. 26
Tariffs in nonagricultural market access	p. 30
Bound and applied tariff rates in NAMA imposed by Brazil, China, and India on imports from the group of 15 developing countries in the sample	p. 33
GDP impacts of trade gains in agriculture and NAMA	p. 35
Weighted average of bound duties, pre- and post-Doha	p. 37
Cuts in bound tariffs	p. 41
Bound versus applied "water levels," pre- and post-Doha	p. 43
Trade-weighted average bound, MFN, and applied tariff rates, 2001, 2006, and post-Doha Round	p. 47
Weighted average of applied tariffs, pre- and post-Doha	p. 51
Cuts in applied tariffs	p. 55
Reciprocity measure gains from domestic support concessions	p. 57
Reciprocity measure gains from concessions in export subsidies	p. 59
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