Agricultural Trade in the Global South: An Overview of Trends in Performance, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Frameworks

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Executive summary

1. Introduction

2. Overview of agricultural trade in South countries

2.1 Overall agricultural trade performance

2.2 Trade patterns across commodities

2.3 Agricultural trade patterns across South countries

2.4 South-South trade

3. Dependence on agricultural trade in South countries

3.1 Dependence on agricultural exports

3.2 Dependence on agricultural imports

4. Participation of South countries in the multilateral trading system

4.1 The multilateral trading system

4.1.1 Bound and Applied Tariffs: a comparison between South and North countries

4.2 The state of play at the WTO

4.2.1 Trade negotiations

4.2.2 Transparency

4.2.3 Dispute settlement

5. Participation in regional trade agreements

5.1 Regional trade agreements

5.1.1 Countries’ participation in RTAs

5.1.2 Mega RTAs

5.2 Opportunities and challenges

5.2.1 The spaghetti bowl: when too many RTAs apply at the same time

6. Conclusions

References

Annex A. Methodological note

Figures

Figure 1. Trends in agricultural exports and imports of South and North countries (constant prices, 2010 values).

Figure 2. Relative trade balance (%) of South and North countries, agriculture,