The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japan’s Agricultural Trade

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Schmitz ◽  
Manhong Zhu ◽  
David Zilberman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Beef Producers ◽  
Partnership Agreement

AbstractThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) was concluded on October 5, 2015, by twelve countries that include the United States, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Under the TPPA, Japan will partially liberalize its five politically sensitive agricultural subsectors: (1) rice, (2) beef and pork, (3) wheat and barley, (4) sugar, and (5) dairy, none of which contain any genetically modified (GM) content. Under full liberalization, Japanese producers in these subsectors will lose (e. g., rice producers will lose over $6 billion and beef producers will lose over $2 billion). Excluding butter, the trade impact of the TPPA on the Japanese government will be negative because of tariff and resale-revenue losses. Our empirical results provide the full effects of complete trade liberalization. However, because the TPPA negotiations of 2015 resulted in only partial trade liberalization, our results can be easily modified to deal with the degree to which trade distortions are removed for each of the above agricultural subsectors. In terms of producers who lose from trade liberalization, the Japanese government will provide compensation.

Political Transfer and “Trading Up”?: Transatlantic Trade in Genetically Modified Food and U.S. Politics

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair R. Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Genetically Modified Food ◽  
Trade Dispute ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
Transatlantic Trade ◽  
Domestic Regulation

Although there is a popular perception that trade liberalization undermines domestic regulation, under certain circumstances international trade can provide a catalyst for making domestic regulations more stringent. This article makes a case extending the applicability of the so-called trading-up thesis by finding evidence of change within the United States in response to the transatlantic trade dispute over genetically modified food. In particular, it argues that political transfer—the transfer of political concern from one jurisdiction to political mobilization in another—can prompt policy change even in the absence of the adoption of foreign standards by domestic firms.

scholarly journals Free Trade Impacts On U.S. And Southern Agriculture

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E. Burfisher ◽  
Robert M. House ◽  
Suchada V. Langley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Trade Relationship

In June 1991, the United States and Mexico agreed to work toward the formation of a free trade area (FTA), in which trade barriers between the two countries will be gradually reduced and eUrninated. An FTA is expected to deepen a trade relationship that has always been important to the two countries, and which has been expanded by the unilateral trade liberalization initiated by Mexico in 1983. A U.S. Mexico FTA will be an important development for U.S. agriculture. In 1990, Mexico ranked among the top four markets for U.S. agricultural exports nd imports. Mexico's share of U.S. agricultural trade has increased since the mid-1980s, and could expand further if trade barriers are removed.

scholarly journals Greener Acres or Greener Waters? Potential U.S. Impacts of Agricultural Trade Liberalization

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Johansson ◽  
Joseph Cooper ◽  
Utpal Vasavada
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Consumer Surplus ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Agricultural Trade Liberalization

This paper examines the elimination of all agricultural policy distortions in all trading countries and agricultural production decisions in the United States, as well as subsequent environmental quality in the presence and absence of nondegradation environmental standards. The results suggest that trade liberalization has the potential to increase domestic production and boost agricultural returns by as much as 8.5 percent. Consumer surplus would likely fall, and the discharge of nutrients, sediment, and pesticides would likely increase. However, environmental policies can limit these adverse environmental impacts and mute the potential decrease in consumer surplus, while leaving increased returns to agricultural production.

scholarly journals A Sectoral Analysis of Agricultural Trade Liberalization

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Lynn Kennedy ◽  
Cemal Atici
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Agricultural Trade Liberalization

AbstractComplete agricultural trade liberalization between the United States and the European Union is examined with respect to the agricultural sector. A static, partial equilibrium model, distinguishing among the European Union, the United States, and a politically passive rest of the world, is used to simulate agricultural free trade. The results of this research reveal how European Union and United States adoption of free trade affects domestic and world prices, production, consumption, self-sufficiency, and welfare.

scholarly journals Indonesia–Import Licensing Regimes: GATT Rules for Agricultural Trade?

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
DUKGEUN AHN ◽  
AREVIK GNUTZMANN-MKRTCHYAN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Fixed Cost ◽  
Market Position ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Heterogeneous Effect

AbstractThis paper examines two disputes brought by the United States and New Zealand in response to a series of import sanctions for agricultural products imposed by the Indonesian government to promote food self-sufficiency. We document the heterogeneous effect the sanctioning measures had on Indonesia's partners. We argue that Indonesia's import licensing regimes acted as a high, sometimes prohibitive, fixed cost of exporting. Frequent changes of regulation provided additional challenges and increased the costs of exporting. These properties determined the differential impacts of Indonesia's measures where some sustained significant market losses while other large exporters, in particular Australia, following a short decline strengthened their market position and export levels.

Effectiveness of Programs for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Del Campo ◽  
Marisalva Fávero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Abstract. During the last decades, several studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of sexual abuse prevention programs implemented in different countries. In this article, we present a review of 70 studies (1981–2017) evaluating prevention programs, conducted mostly in the United States and Canada, although with a considerable presence also in other countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The results of these studies, in general, are very promising and encourage us to continue this type of intervention, almost unanimously confirming its effectiveness. Prevention programs encourage children and adolescents to report the abuse experienced and they may help to reduce the trauma of sexual abuse if there are victims among the participants. We also found that some evaluations have not considered the possible negative effects of this type of programs in the event that they are applied inappropriately. Finally, we present some methodological considerations as critical analysis to this type of evaluations.

The New Economic Populism and the Future of Inequality in the United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Franko ◽  
Christopher Witko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Income Disparities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Over Time

The authors conclude the book by recapping their arguments and empirical results, and discussing the possibilities for the “new economic populism” to promote egalitarian economic outcomes in the face of continuing gridlock and the dominance of Washington, DC’s policymaking institutions by business and the wealthy, and a conservative Republican Party. Many states are actually addressing inequality now, and these policies are working. Admittedly, many states also continue to embrace the policies that have contributed to growing inequality, such as tax cuts for the wealthy or attempting to weaken labor unions. But as the public grows more concerned about inequality, the authors argue, policies that help to address these income disparities will become more popular, and policies that exacerbate inequality will become less so. Over time, if history is a guide, more egalitarian policies will spread across the states, and ultimately to the federal government.

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