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FTAA: U.S. AGRICULTURE AND THE FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS
Sponsoring Institution
Economic Research Service/USDA
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
USDA COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0406047
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Sep 1, 2002
Project End Date
Mar 30, 2004
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
USDA/ERS
1800 M STREET NW
WASHINGTON,DC 20036
Performing Department
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
Non Technical Summary
The Free Trade Area of the Americas is a trade and investment agreement that will come into effect among 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere in 2005. This report on the impacts of the FTAA on U.S. agriculture includes analysis of of market access, foreign direct investment, sanitary and phytosanitary rules, and environmental impacts.
Animal Health Component
90%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
10%
Applied
90%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
6066230301040%
6096120301040%
6116230301020%
Knowledge Area
611 - Foreign Policy and Programs; 609 - Economic Theory and Methods; 606 - International Trade and Development;

Subject Of Investigation
6120 - International economy and sectors thereof; 6230 - Marketing systems and sectors thereof;

Field Of Science
3010 - Economics;
Goals / Objectives
This project will examine the potential effects of an FTAA (Free Trade Areas of the Americas) on U.S. and global agriculture. The FTAA is a free trade agreement that will eliminate barriers to trade and investment among 34 countries of the Western Hemisphere. Issues that will be studied include market access, case studies of sugar and orange juice, sanitary and phytosanitary rules, foreign direct investment, U.S. environmental impacts, impacts of NAFTA and MERCOSUR, and links between the FTAA and global reforms in the WTO Doha round.
Project Methods
A combination of simple descriptive statistics, CGE analysis, gravity model analysis, and multisectoral partial equilibrium agricultural model will be used to study the issues and their impacts on U.S. and Hemispheric agricultural trade.

Progress 09/01/02 to 03/30/04

Outputs
The findings from the research effort to assess the implications for U.S. agriculture of a Free Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA) were released in an Agricultural Economic Report in March 2004. This report describes the effects on U.S. agriculture of the trade liberalization that has already occurred in the Western Hemisphere. It explains the implications of advancing to a FTAA for U.S. agricultural trade, production, agri-environment, and foreign direct investment. The report also discusses market access and sanitary and phytosanitary topics related to the FTAA. It found that the FTAA would complement the multilateral negotiations in the Doha Development Agenda, which have a broader agenda for agricultural reform.

Impacts
(N/A)

Publications

  • Burfisher, M., Krissoff, B., Pick, D., Roberts, D., Skully, D., Cooper, J., Bolling, H., Wainio, J., Pompelli, G., Gibson, P., Gehlhar, M., Haley, S., House, R., Zahniser, S., Sherman Robinson, Karen Thierfelder, Wes Nimon, Mark Peters, Jason Donovan, 2004, U.S. Agriculture and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Agricultural Economic Report, AER-827, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March, 148 pp.