The move toward open agricultural markets was agreed upon by the WTOmember nations in the Uruguay round of GATT. With this international consensus and the global trend toward free trade in agriculture, Taiwan is finding it difficult to swim against the current by maintaining its protectionist agricultural policies.
農業自由化是世界貿易組織會員國在一九九三年烏拉圭回合協定時，即在國際上產生的共識，在國際潮流下，我國長期以來對本土農業的保護，顯然逆勢而行，極為艱辛。