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Emerging Powers in WTO Negotiations: The Domestic Sources of Trade Policy Preferences

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In the current round of multilateral trade liberalization, emerging powers such as Brazil and India created the G-20 coalition and refused to accept further tariff rate reductions for industrial products before the United States and the European Union made reciprocal concessions in agriculture. This article examines how and why Brazil and India have taken a more offensive and proactive position at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Following Putnam's two-level games approach, I focus on domestic factors and specifically on interest groups to explain actors' policy preferences in WTO negotiations. From a theoretical perspective, the case studies Brazil and India lend credit to the literature discussing the impact of powerful, sector-specific interest groups on governments' trade policy preferences. From an empirical perspective, the findings show how these two countries translated these demands into government positions and influenced WTO outcomes as agenda-setters and coalition builders.

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  • Eug�nia da Concei�ão-Heldt, 2013. "Emerging Powers in WTO Negotiations: The Domestic Sources of Trade Policy Preferences," The International Trade Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 431-449, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:uitjxx:v:27:y:2013:i:5:p:431-449
    DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2013.838149
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    1. Pérez del Castillo, Carlos, 2002. "Agricultural Negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Their Links to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 4511, Inter-American Development Bank.
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