WTO AGRICULTURE NEGOCIATIONS
&
CAIRNS GROUPS COALITION STRATEGY SUCCESS
URUGWAY (1986-1994)

Tidadini Maya
102SIS28 Development & Cooperation
Ewha University
After the end of the Second World War, the role of the World Trade Organization has been crucial and primordial to create a framework that would regulate the international trade by promoting the free trade and abolish protectionism. To achieve the goal of trade liberalization, the mission of the WTO consisted in assisting and arbitrating the multilateral negotiations between the participant countries having similar objectives; i.e., elimination or reduction of trade barriers and hindrances. The negotiations process within the WTO should comply with the principles stated by the charter of the WTO: non –discrimination, transparency, reciprocity, and tariffs reduction.
The WTO has dealt with several issues related to the liberalization of different economic sectors except the agricultural sector, the latter has been excluded from the GATT* (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) negotiations for the first four decades. Due to the large number of disputes and conflicts on Agricultural Trade raising from the general distortion of the internal agriculture market and the lack of regulation and agreements between countries, ministers taking part to the 1986 WTO Conference (Uruguay, Punta El Est) have declared in the opening session of multilateral negotiation regarding agricultural sector that the negotiation will be completed within four years. (See the Reference).
The main distortions of the agricultural sector resulted in dividing the market into two main groups which are: the developing and the developed countries. Indeed, agricultural policies are quite different for both groups; the outcomes are more negative for the developing countries than the developed countries. The post war period had and evident impact on the domestic policies. For industrialized countries, agricultural