Petrova, D.A., Shakhnazarov, B.A. Legal bases for the implementation of the trade policy in the agricultural sector under the WTO membership conditions for Russia

Abstract: The agricultural sector of economy is a strategically important sphere of state regulation, and its legal regulation is quite multi-faceted. Development of the trade policy which would on one hand create transparent and clear norms for the importer, and on the other hand would support the national agricultural producers under the WTO norms forms an important part of the membership requirements for the Russian Federation in the WTO. This article is devoted to the key aspects of the legal regulation of legal regulation in the sphere of agriculture under the conditions of the membership of the Russian Federation in the WTO. The authors analyze the WTO Treaties in this sphere, as well as specific features of the obligations in the sphere of tariffs and customs, phyto-sanitary control and domestic support of agricultural sector. Having compared the norms of the international treaties and the current domestic legislation, the authors comes to the conclusion that there is need to introduce some amendments into the normative legal base in the sphere of agriculture during the transition period under the Protocol on joining the WTO.

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