Abstract:
The introduction of agricultural trade into the Uruguay round of GATT turned it from an institution of marginal interest to the poorer nations to one of central importance. Agriculture accounts for around twenty per cent on average of the GDP of Southern countries. But it was not the importance of agriculture to the South that put it onto the GATT agenda. It was the desire of the agricultural superpowers, the United States and the European Community, to win advantages in their subsidy war over export markets for their food surpluses.
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