@article{Knutson:16811,
      recid = {16811},
      author = {Knutson, Ronald D. and Ochoa, Rene F.},
      title = {CONVERGENCE, HARMONIZATION, AND COMPATIBILITY UNDER NAFTA:  A 2003 STATUS REPORT},
      address = {2003},
      number = {746-2016-51277},
      series = {Agricultural and Food Policy Systems Information Workshop},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {In the 2001 Workshop the authors developed and applied a  taxonomy and framework for assessing the status of  agricultural and food policies in each of the NAFTA  countries (Knutson, Loyns and Ochoa, 2002).  It divided the  policies into the following areas:   -Facilitate growth and  progress.  -Regulation.  -Market intervention.  For each  area the paper identified the major points of conflict that  existed in 2001 at the time the paper was written and the  requirements for harmonization.  The major areas of  conflict included;  -Facilitate growth and progress:   particularly grades and standards in grains (US-CA) and  beef (US-CA); trade policy in dairy (US-CA), sugar (US-MX),  poultry (US-MX), and wheat (US-CA); infrastructure policies  (border conflicts US-MX).  -Regulation: particularly plant  and animal protection (US-MX), food safety (US-MX),  pesticides (US-CA-MX).  -Market interventions: particularly  disaster assistance (US-CA-MX), price supports and safety  nets (US-CA-MX), and supply management and state trading.   The purpose of this paper is to update that paper and to  draw conclusions as to whether progress has been made since  2001 has been positive, negative, or neutral in each of  these areas of conflict for policy/program convergence,  harmonization, and compatibility.  The 2001 policies,  therefore, can be looked upon as a policy baseline point of  reference for comparison in 2003.  Many of the policy  changes were embodied in the precipitated by the US 2002  farm bill.  However, care was taken to review each of the  policy/program areas covered in the 2001 taxonomy to  identify changes in the level of conflict.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/16811},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.16811},
}