Policy Articles

A new agreement for Japan’s pork “safeguard” in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations

Yoshihisa Godo, Hiroshi Takahashi
2016.06.01
Introduction When pork imports increase sharply, the Japanese government is geared to implement a special measure for protecting domestic pork producers. This urgent and temporary measure is called a “safeguard.” In the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, the Japanese...
Country: Japan Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Trends in TPP agreement and government correspondence: An Overview

Hisako Nomura
2016.05.30
Trends after TPP agreement outline agreement   [Conditions of TPP entry into force] When a country has completed its domestic treaty-making processes, it will notify other TPP countries that it has done all that is required for the Agreement to enter into force. The Trans-Pacific...
Country: Japan Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Malaysian Agricultural Qualty Standards

Mohd Rashid Rabu, Nik Rozana Nik Mohamad Masdek, Mohd Dainori Md Shah
2016.05.24
INTRODUCTION Consumers are demanding healthy, nutritious and safe food and agricultural products. The demand has increased both in the domestic and export markets. This is a result of the rampant food scandals, which occur from time to time.. Examples of said scandals include the, pathogenic...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Food security and safety
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Impacts of TPP on Vietnam’s Domestic Agriculture and its Commensurate Adjustment Policies

Dang Kim Khoi, Tran Cong Thang
2016.05.23
ABSTRACT This report focuses on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the corresponding analyses regarding  opportunities and challenges that it brings to Vietnam’s agricultural sector. Overall, Vietnam has many advantages in agriculture, forestry and fishery export (...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Contract Farming Potential: Case Study on Improvement of Maize Value Chain and Farmers’ Livelihood

Thanda Kyi, War War Kyaw
2016.05.19
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to understand the maize value chain in Tatkon Township where this study was conducted with the analyses of the production and marketing along the maize value chain including the socio-economic conditions of the farmers and marketing margins in the study area....
Country: Myanmar Topic: Agricultural marketing policy
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