IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea10/61762.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Special Safeguard Mechanism In The Doha Development Agenda: A Case Study Of Soybeans

Author

Listed:
  • Weeks, Heather
  • Grant, Jason H.
  • McConnell, Michael
  • Meilke, Karl D.

Abstract

The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) proposed for developing countries has become a thorny issue in the Doha Development Agenda’s (DDA) agricultural negotiations. Proponents of the mechanism argue that it is a necessary compromise to counter sharp price declines or rapid import surges in staple commodity markets of developing nations. Opponents of the SSM, which include many developed exporters, contend that the policy flexibility contained in current SSM proposals would severely limit market access if the mechanism is triggered. The impact of the SSM depends on a number of parameters: the number of times the SSM is triggered, whether the price or volume SSM is triggered, the size of current tariffs, the magnitude with which tariffs are reduced in the DDA, and the number of times a developing country will actually make use of the SSM. This study introduces a static, synthetic, global, partial equilibrium model of the world soybean complex to assess the preliminary aspects of the DDA’s proposed tariff cuts. Future work on this project will extend the model to a stochastic framework from which to simulate the effects of an SSM combined with the DDA tariff cutting formulas for developing nations.

Suggested Citation

  • Weeks, Heather & Grant, Jason H. & McConnell, Michael & Meilke, Karl D., 2010. "The Special Safeguard Mechanism In The Doha Development Agenda: A Case Study Of Soybeans," 2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado 61762, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea10:61762
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.61762
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/61762/files/AAEA-11283-SSM-PAPER.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.61762?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Agribusiness;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea10:61762. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.