Wheat, Europe and World Trade: European Community Price and.. This item is unavailable.Wheat, Europe and World Trade: European Community Price and.

In this study concepts learnt in international political economy are adopted to highlight key security, production, financial and technological power structures. These power structures have transformed the interlocking and overlapping sets of bargains that have determined the European Community's wheat policy current during the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in progress at the time of writing. Thoughout the 1970s EC wheat price policy concentrated on supporting farm incomes, which neither permitted nor required an active external policy. In the 1980s however, prices were increasingly directed by market conditions. Shifts in the structures surrounding the wheat system had weakened the pan-European farm lobby. A patchwork of new agreements envolved between policy makers, commodity groups and non-farm lobbies, to support an active, rather than defensive, export policy. The implications of this new export orientation for the rest of the world via the Uruguay round of the GATT are examined.