A influência da política agrícola comum na posição da União Européia nas negociações agrícolas do sistema multilateral de comércio GATT/OMC : análise comparada das rodadas Uruguai e Doha

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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The objective of this study is to determine how the reform process of the guidelines of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Economic Community (ECC) / European Union (EU) influence the formation of the EUs negotiating position for multilateral negotiations of trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). To correctly access this process, We will also analyze how the multilateral trading system influences the dynamics of bargain within the CAP, providing feedback to this very process. The cases selected are those concerning the formation and alteration of the negotiating position of the EEC / EU during the negotiations of the Uruguay Round of the GATT and the Doha Round (from the Seattle Ministerial to the Hong Kong Ministerial) of the WTO. We have here little concern about other conditions for the conduct of the EUs negotiations in the GATT / WTO and little attention will be given to other minority actors participating in the process as well as to the dynamics of alliances formation outside the EEC / EU in the multilateral negotiations. The focus of this research is to explain how the agenda of an intra-Community policy like CAP has effects profound effects in the EUs position in the international system. The hypothesis advanced here is the result of theoretical implications and partly derived from an analysis of counterfactual rationalizing that shows that one of the EUs major institutional constraints to the conformation and implementation of its policy agenda has been historically the structure the Common Agricultural Policy. This is a finding concerning not only the movements of the European Union on developments within its own communitarian policies but also in its relationships with other players. We examined this process by which is transmitted the restrictions of the CAP applying an intergovernmental model of analyses derived from the work of Moravcsik (1997, 1999). We developed a hybrid model that takes into account basic premises of the institutional theory and accepts the existence of restrictions on the behavior of States that are set outside the inter-state game. This model takes as given the institutional framework through which States interact, the standards and rules of procedure, and it adds them in a reconciled way to the dynamics of intergovernmental classical bargaining with the purpose of verify their influence in shaping the outcome balance and under what conditions this very dynamics alters the basic rules reinitiating the game. One can conclude that the CAP is an important restriction on the formation of the EUs agenda and negotiating position in the multilateral trading system and its effects, measured by the change in the bargaining power of the community, vary with the concentration of member-states preferences and the timing of the CAPs reforms during the negotiations in the GATT / WTO.

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relacoes internacionais common agricultural policy comércio agrícola política agrícola comum negociações internacionais omc european union agricultural trade união européia gatt international negotiations wto gatt

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