Standstill Agreements

Summary of Standstill Agreements

An arrangement between the United States and the European Economic Community emerging at the end of the Dillon Round in 1961 concerning certain agricultural commodities. In essence, status quo was maintained on U.S. exports of wheat, corn, rice, poultry, and sorghum grain pending further negotiations with the EEC. Failing to secure adequate access for American poultry, the United States suspended tariff concessions covering a variety of European products equal to the value of U.S. poultry trade lost.

See CHICKEN WAR.

(Main Author: William J. Miller)