Research On Agricultural Domestic Support In The World Trade Organiza Tion

As the fundamental basis of human’s livelihood, agriculture holds a crucial position in many countries all the time. It seriously affects the country’s economic development. Therefore, all the countries especially the developed ones are carrying out a series of intensive policies supporting the agriculture development. This type of domestic support constitutes a significant part of the agricultural laws system. Meanwhile, it attracts plenty of attentions during the WTO agricultural trade negotiations. The dispute lasts from initial multilateral trade negotiation, to Dillon Round, Kennedy Round, Tokyo Round and finally ends in Uruguay Round, concluding Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture which sets some rules for domestic support. It is the first time for WTO to constrain legally every country in agricultural support policies. However, the reaching of Uru-guay Round Agreement on Agriculture did not make the agricultural trade develop completely in a liberalized way. The numerous compromises made in the aspect of domestic support during Uru-guay Round negotiation and the imperfection of the Agreement itself seriously disturbs the final effect on constraining the countries. Fortunately, the present Doha Round negotiation makes some improvement on it. The rules constraining domestic support are becoming more and more con-summate. Newly reached Agricultural Frame Agreement sets a reformation direction after realiz-ing the drawback of Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.China is a completely great agricultural country. Agriculture is close related with the basic benefit of every farmer. After joining WTO in 2001, China started to procced a series of refor-mation about agricultural policies in order to follow the rules of WTO and as well as further de-velop agricultural production and trade. These reformation helped China successfully transform from burden-type agriculture to support-type agriculture.The introduction of this thesis briefly introduces the legislative background, development process of domestic support rules and its status in China. At last, the existent problems of China in domestic agricultural support rules are proposed.The first part of main body at first analyze the relationship between domestic agricultural support and agricultural subsidy. The discrepancy is got through deepgoing analysis on their con-cepts. Then, the detailed introductions including the basic concepts and the corresponding rules about the various types of support policies are present on the basis of classification method of Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.The second part focuses on the imperfection of domestic support rules in Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. According to the categories of domestic support policies, the analyses are carried out in the aspect of "Green box", "Blue box", "Yellow box", aggregate measurement of support and obligation of reduction, respectively.The third part introduces the progress of the present Doha Round negotiation and meanwhile, based on the detailed comparative analyses, the improvement and revision places between Uru-guay Round Agreement on Agriculture and Agricultural Frame Agreement. Meanwhile, further analyses on the retained drawback and suggestions on amendment in my opinion account for an-other significant section.The fourth part firstly introduces the current condition of domestic agricultural support in China combining the commitments and promised actions China has made. At the same time, the existent problems with respect to law and the suggestions about legislation are present.A summary is made at the end of this thesis.