2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Agriculture in the emerging world-wide free trade system
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17530260
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Tateshi The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Economics, Professor, 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (00116683)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | GATT / free trade policy / Japanese entry to GATT / agriculture / British Commonwealth |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research in its original stage it was intended to look into the attitude of the British Government toward the GATT system in the 1950s. And it was expected that the appraisal of the GATT by the British Government would contain the opinions as to the role of agriculture under the GATT system. But in the course of research, it was found that, contrary to the original expectation, there were rather few remarks concerning the relation between agriculture and trade system in the documents of the National Archives. This fact might be interpreted as showing that the compromise between the free trade system and the governmental policy of supporting domestic agriculture had been complete by 1950.
Instead, in the process of reading the documents, it was discovered that the application by the Japanese Government for the entry to GATT had brought forth a serious problem for the British Government. The British Government, especially Board of Trade, had promoted the free trade policy against the opposition by supporters of imperial preference. Facing the possibility of Japanese competition in export markets, officials at Board of Trade made an effort to persuade other departments to support the plan of putting off the entry of Japan to GATT. The effort by the British Government was to be partly frustrated by the attitude of some of the Commonwealth countries such as India and Pakistan.
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Research Products
(3 results)
