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Tensions around a trade regime : the GATT/WTO banana story

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  • Hervé Guyomard

    (Unité d'économie et sociologie rurales de rennes - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CEPII - Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales - Centre d'analyse stratégique)

  • Chantal Le Mouël

    (Unité d'économie et sociologie rurales de rennes - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CEPII - Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales - Centre d'analyse stratégique)

Abstract

Depuis la mise en oeuvre de l'Organisation commune de marché (OCM) de la banane en 1993, cette dernière a fait l'objet de nombreuses plaintes au GATT, puis à l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC). Le document propose tout d'abord un panorama du conflit qui s'est déroulé autour de l'OCM de la banane entre l'Union européenne (UE), d'une part, et les pays exportateurs plaignants (pays d'Amérique Latine, soutenus par les Etats-Unis), d'autre part. En suivant la chronologie des évènements, l'accent est mis sur les principales dispositions de l'OCM contestées dans les différentes plaintes et sur les réformes successives de l'OCM adoptées par l'UE en réponse à ces plaintes. Il apparaît alors que ces diverses réformes ont conduit à progressivement éroder l'accès préférentiel que l'UE avait initialement tenté de réserver aux bananes originaires des pays ACP (Afrique, Caraïbes et Pacifique). Dans un second temps, l'analyse porte sur les conséquences de l'OCM finalement adoptée par l'UE en 2001. Une évaluation quantitative des effets de cette OCM pour les différents pays exportateurs de bananes vers l'UE est proposée. Les résultats montrent que certains pays ACP, en particulier les Etats des Caraïbes, pourraient pâtir de cette nouvelle réglementation.

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  • Hervé Guyomard & Chantal Le Mouël, 2003. "Tensions around a trade regime : the GATT/WTO banana story," Post-Print hal-01594084, HAL.
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