@article{Tsigas:331131,
      recid = {331131},
      author = {Tsigas, Marinos E. and Boughner, Devry S.},
      title = {The U.S. Sugar Program versus Bilateral and Multilateral  Trade Liberalization},
      address = {2003},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2003},
      note = {Presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands},
      abstract = {This paper explores the tensions that exist between  maintaining the U.S. sugar program and liberalizing the  U.S. sugar market in bilateral, regional, and multilateral  agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement,  the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the United  States-Central American Free Trade Agreement, the United  States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and the Doha  Development Agenda. The paper focuses on the effects on the  U.S. sugar program of moving to a common market with Mexico  and of providing additional access to sugar-producing  nations under an FTAA, CAFTA, AFTA, and the DDA. The  discussion serves to provide a clear example of the  predicament in which the United States finds itself between  maintaining protection on import sensitive commodities  all-the-while negotiating for removal of protection on  export oriented commodities. The Global Trade Analysis  Project (GTAP) model is employed to assess the effects of  trade liberalization on the U.S. economy under varying  liberalization scenarios for sugar. The simulation results  suggest that free sugar imports from some countries would  be beneficial to the U.S. economy as a whole. Under free  sugar imports, the prices of sugar crops and refined sugar  would decline. If farm prices were insulated from free  imports by price supports, the welfare gains to the U.S.  economy would increase in some cases. The results suggest,  however, that the wider the coverage of free imports, the  more difficult it would be to sustain price supports.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331131},
}