ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of the Cairns Group of countries in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations. It presents a preliminary assessment of the potential effects of likely outcomes in the Round on the major trading regions and on Cairns Group member countries. The chapter also presents an analysis to suggest that global gains from the Blair House Accord are likely to be similar to those under the Dunkel package. A key feature of the United States and the European Community agricultural trade relations in recent decades has been the discrepancy between ideology and behavior. The success of international agreements, such as the GATT, depends fundamentally on the extent to which the most powerful signatories to those agreements are prepared to support them. A bilateral agreement on agriculture was finally reached in November 1992.
