scholarly journals The Heterogeneous Effects of Standards on Agricultural Trade Flows

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Dela‐Dem Doe Fiankor ◽  
Oliver‐Ken Haase ◽  
Bernhard Brümmer
Author(s):  
Erhan Artuc ◽  
Guido Porto ◽  
Bob Rijkers

Abstract How do trade reforms impact households in different parts of the income distribution? This paper presents a new database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and middle-income countries. The data cover highly disaggregated information on household budget and income shares for 53 agricultural products, wage labor income, non-farm enterprise sales and transfers, as well as spending on manufacturing and services. Using a stylized model of the first-order impacts of import tariffs on household real income, this paper quantifies the welfare implications of agricultural trade protection. On average, unilateral elimination of agricultural tariffs would increase household incomes by 2.50 percentage points. Import tariffs have highly heterogeneous effects across countries and within countries across households, consumers, and income earners; the average standard deviation of the gains from trade within a country is 1.01 percentage points.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Fernández Álvarez

AbstractThis paper explores the main contents of the agricultural trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Morocco during the period 2008-2017. It investigates the agricultural trade relations and trade flows focussing on the competitiveness of Moroccan agriculture in the single market. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) is used as the main analytical device. The a priori hypothesis is that the trade agreements and specifically the agriculture concessional trade provisions granted by the EU to Morocco have created the proper Moroccan agricultural scenery to improve production and exports. The examination and evaluation of the data tends to confirm the hypothesis. Morocco is becoming a veritable exporting power, it has diversified exports and most of its product sectors enjoy high levels of comparative advantage in the single market.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Xian Xin ◽  
Tun Lin ◽  
Xiaoyun Liu ◽  
Guanghua Wan ◽  
Yongsheng Zhang

Purpose – The impacts of climate change on agricultural production in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) are significant, and differ across regions and crops. The substantial regional differences will induce changes in agricultural interregional trade pattern. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the climate change impacts on China’s agricultural interregional trade pattern. Design/methodology/approach – The paper will use the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the impacts of climate change on the PRC’s agricultural interregional trade flows. The CGE model consists of seven Chinese regions and the rest of the world and six commodities. Findings – The results indicate that northwest, south, central, and northeast PRC will see increases in the outflows of agricultural products in 2030 and 2050. Conversely, outflows from east, north, and southwest PRC will decrease. Agricultural products handling and transportation facilities need to be repositioned to address the changes in agricultural trade flows. Originality/value – Studies on the impacts of climate change on the PRC’s agriculture have been increasing. To the best of our knowledge, however, no previous studies have assessed the impacts of climate change on the PRC’s agricultural interregional trade flows. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasily Erokhin ◽  
Wim Heijman ◽  
Anna Ivolga

Abstract The paper includes overview of the current state of the EU-CIS and the EU-Russia trade flows with particular attention to trade in agricultural commodities, as well as contemporary tendencies in agricultural production and foreign trade in agricultural commodities and food in Russia. The paper specifically addresses the possible effects of the trade restrictions between the EU and Russia, particularly the imposed ban on agricultural trade, on the Visegrad countries. The paper is concluded with an overview of the expected influences of the trade tensions on Russia’s domestic agricultural market, including consumers, producers, and retailers.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. van Berkum ◽  
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R.A. Jongeneel ◽  
M.G.A. van Leeuwen ◽  
I.J. Terluin ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (No. 8) ◽  
pp. 370-383
Author(s):  
J. Pokrivčák ◽  
P. Ciaian ◽  
A. Kancs

This article examines the factor content of agricultural trade in the Central and East European (CEE) transition countries. It relates the factor content of agricultural trade to the cross-country differences in technology stemming from different farm organisations between the CEE countries agricultural sectors and to the differences in relative factor endowments. The relative factor endowments alone do not satisfactorily explain agricultural trade flows in the CEE countries. We find that transaction costs and market imperfections that affect the organisation of production also distort farm specialisation and hence V the actor content of agricultural trade.


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