Abstract
While the debates in the United States concerning the possible impact on American agriculture of the market access provisions under discussion in the Uruguay Round agriculture negotiations were of relatively minor importance in the United States in relation to the entire Uruguay Round negotiations, similar discussions were of much greater importance to Japanese politics and to Japanese trade policymaking, and attracted the attention of the Japanese public and major Japanese newspapers for several years. This chapter examines the relationship between domestic politics and international relations in Japanese trade policymaking throughout the Uruguay Round agriculture negotiations, focusing on the negotiations concerning market access. The chapter concludes by addressing the question: To what extent did domestic politics affect the agreement reached by Japan in the Uruguay Round agriculture negotiations? This is done by assessing the validity of the three hypotheses concerning Japanese trade policymaking discussed in Chapter 2.
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