Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dispute settlement between developing countries: Argentina and Chilean price bands
- 2 Argentina and GATS: a study of the domestic determinants of GATS commitments
- 3 Rock ‘n’ roll in Bangladesh:protecting intellectual property rights in music
- 4 Barbados: telecommunications liberalization
- 5 Services commitments: case studies from Belize and Costa Rica
- 6 Inter-agency policy co-ordination in Botswana
- 7 Brazil and the G20 group of developing countries
- 8 Cambodia's accession to the WTO: ‘fast track’ accession by a least developed country
- 9 Canada and the WTO: multilevel governance, public policy-making and the WTO Auto Pact Case
- 10 The SPS Agreement and crisis management: the Chile–EU avian influenza experience
- 11 Shanghai's WTO Affairs Consultation Center: working together to take advantage of WTO membership
- 12 Costa Rica's challenge to US restrictions on the import of underwear
- 13 Fiji: preparing for the end of preferences?
- 14 The road to Cancún: the French decision-making process and WTO negotiations
- 15 Decision-making processes in India: the case of the agriculture negotiations
- 16 Protecting the geographical indication for Darjeeling tea
- 17 The Indian shrimp industry organizes to fight the threat of anti-dumping action
- 18 Indonesia's shrimp exports: meeting the challenge of quality standards
- 19 Patents, parallel importation and compulsory licensing of HIV/AIDS drugs: the experience of Kenya
- 20 Kenya's participation in the WTO: lessons learned
- 21 Learning by doing: the impact of a trade remedy case in Korea
- 22 Laos: the textile and garment industry in the post-ATC era
- 23 Malawi in the multilateral trading system
- 24 Malaysia: labelling regulations on natural rubber condoms and the WTO TBT Agreement
- 25 Malaysia: strategies for the liberalization of the services sector
- 26 Mauritius: co-operation in an economy evolving for the future
- 27 How regional economic communities can facilitate participation in the WTO: the experience of Mauritius and Zambia
- 28 Mexico's agricultural trade policies: international commitments and domestic pressure
- 29 Mongolia's WTO accession: expectations and realities of WTO membership
- 30 Nepal: the role of an NGO in support of accession
- 31 Nepal: exports of ayurvedic herbal remedies and SPS issues
- 32 Import prohibition as a trade policy instrument: the Nigerian experience
- 33 The Pacific island nations: towards shared representation
- 34 Victory in principle: Pakistan's dispute settlement case on combed cotton yarn exports to the United States
- 35 Pakistan: the consequences of a change in the EC rice regime
- 36 Philippines: stakeholder participation in agricultural policy formation
- 37 Philippines: adopting the transaction basis for customs valuation
- 38 The reform of South Africa's anti-dumping regime
- 39 The impact of GATS on telecommunications competition in Sri Lanka
- 40 Thailand: conciliating a dispute on tuna exports to the EC
- 41 Uganda's participation in WTO negotiations: institutional challenges
- 42 Uruguay in the services negotiations: strategy and challenges
- 43 Vanuatu's suspended accession bid: second thoughts?
- 44 Public and private participation in agricultural negotiations: the experience of Venezuela
- 45 Preparation by Vietnam's banking sector for WTO accession
- Index
13 - Fiji: preparing for the end of preferences?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dispute settlement between developing countries: Argentina and Chilean price bands
- 2 Argentina and GATS: a study of the domestic determinants of GATS commitments
- 3 Rock ‘n’ roll in Bangladesh:protecting intellectual property rights in music
- 4 Barbados: telecommunications liberalization
- 5 Services commitments: case studies from Belize and Costa Rica
- 6 Inter-agency policy co-ordination in Botswana
- 7 Brazil and the G20 group of developing countries
- 8 Cambodia's accession to the WTO: ‘fast track’ accession by a least developed country
- 9 Canada and the WTO: multilevel governance, public policy-making and the WTO Auto Pact Case
- 10 The SPS Agreement and crisis management: the Chile–EU avian influenza experience
- 11 Shanghai's WTO Affairs Consultation Center: working together to take advantage of WTO membership
- 12 Costa Rica's challenge to US restrictions on the import of underwear
- 13 Fiji: preparing for the end of preferences?
- 14 The road to Cancún: the French decision-making process and WTO negotiations
- 15 Decision-making processes in India: the case of the agriculture negotiations
- 16 Protecting the geographical indication for Darjeeling tea
- 17 The Indian shrimp industry organizes to fight the threat of anti-dumping action
- 18 Indonesia's shrimp exports: meeting the challenge of quality standards
- 19 Patents, parallel importation and compulsory licensing of HIV/AIDS drugs: the experience of Kenya
- 20 Kenya's participation in the WTO: lessons learned
- 21 Learning by doing: the impact of a trade remedy case in Korea
- 22 Laos: the textile and garment industry in the post-ATC era
- 23 Malawi in the multilateral trading system
- 24 Malaysia: labelling regulations on natural rubber condoms and the WTO TBT Agreement
- 25 Malaysia: strategies for the liberalization of the services sector
- 26 Mauritius: co-operation in an economy evolving for the future
- 27 How regional economic communities can facilitate participation in the WTO: the experience of Mauritius and Zambia
- 28 Mexico's agricultural trade policies: international commitments and domestic pressure
- 29 Mongolia's WTO accession: expectations and realities of WTO membership
- 30 Nepal: the role of an NGO in support of accession
- 31 Nepal: exports of ayurvedic herbal remedies and SPS issues
- 32 Import prohibition as a trade policy instrument: the Nigerian experience
- 33 The Pacific island nations: towards shared representation
- 34 Victory in principle: Pakistan's dispute settlement case on combed cotton yarn exports to the United States
- 35 Pakistan: the consequences of a change in the EC rice regime
- 36 Philippines: stakeholder participation in agricultural policy formation
- 37 Philippines: adopting the transaction basis for customs valuation
- 38 The reform of South Africa's anti-dumping regime
- 39 The impact of GATS on telecommunications competition in Sri Lanka
- 40 Thailand: conciliating a dispute on tuna exports to the EC
- 41 Uganda's participation in WTO negotiations: institutional challenges
- 42 Uruguay in the services negotiations: strategy and challenges
- 43 Vanuatu's suspended accession bid: second thoughts?
- 44 Public and private participation in agricultural negotiations: the experience of Venezuela
- 45 Preparation by Vietnam's banking sector for WTO accession
- Index
Summary
The problem in context
This case study of Fiji explores the way in which its government and people are preparing to deal with the expected end of preferential trading relationships, and is based largely on interviews conducted in Fiji over several days in August 2004. In March 1997 the WTO Secretariat published its report of Fiji's first review under the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). Paragraph 37 of the report's summary observations provides a good starting point for the current study. It reads, in part:
Fiji's economy depends heavily on sugar, tourism and clothing. The need to lessen the dependence on the sugar industry may become more urgent as Fiji's preferential status in its sugar export markets is eroded in the long term. Similarly, the clothing sector, also facing an erosion of preferential access, could require efficiency gains to remain competitive. Diversification of the economy will, however, require attention to the problem of shortages of professional and technical personnel that have resulted from the high rates of emigration over the past decade.
What has happened in Fiji since 1997 to facilitate diversification of the economy away from reliance on preference-dependent sectors and what policies and strategies are being pursued to this end? Can this small island nation adapt its workforce and economy to cope with the challenges of the early twenty-first century? Fiji's successful adaptation to change would be important to both the country and the region, while failure would probably have grave consequences.
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- Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation45 Case Studies, pp. 189 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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