Blair House Agreement

The Blair House Agreement in 1992 in a closed under the Uruguay Round Agreement between the European Community and the United States with respect to an upper limit for the production of by- products during cultivation of renewable raw materials on set-aside land. The upper limit is set at one million tons of soybean meal equivalents, corresponding to approximately 1.4 million tons of rapeseed cake. When exceeding the upper limit of the excess quantities either for human or animal consumption may be used.

To avoid overproduction in the agricultural sector, producers 10-33 % of their land can shut down, that is here no more plants are grown, which are used for food production. To compensate the producers receive fixed premiums. However, can be grown, which may not be used in the food sector on land set aside renewable raw materials. When processing example of rapeseed or sunflower by-products are, which can be further processed by other than animal feed. With the Blair House Agreement should be prevented from being reduced by the non-food cultivation the import requirements of the EC in oilseeds, of which the United States would be affected with their soy exports in the first place. The Blair House Agreement was up to and including the 2001 harvest.

  • Foreign Trade
  • International Law Treaty
  • Economic history of the United States
  • Economic policies of the European Union
  • Agricultural policy of the European Union
  • Policy in 1992
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