ABSTRACT
One of the themes of this book is that many ‘new’ issues such as telecommunica-tion systems, financial services, and intellectual property rights crowd the international trade agenda. Yet more traditional areas such as agricultural trade policy are of significance in understanding the nature of trade politics at the end of the twentieth century. Old and new trade issues are often closely linked, as was the case in the recently concluded Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) multilateral trade negotiations (1986-94) that covered some fourteen items. Some of the major players in this part of the talks threatened to end the talks if an agreement to liberalize agricultural trade was not forthcoming.
