scholarly journals The EC-Scandinavian agricultural trade changes - causes and consequences

1991 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 503-512
Author(s):  
Tuomas Kuhmonen ◽  
Dirk Strijker
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
Price Support ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Direct Income

This article examines the changes in the mutual agro-food trade between the EC and Scandinavian countries Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1960—85 by using the concept of “Revealed Comparative Advantage”. The agricultural policy actions of the EC have weakened the mutual trading position of Scandinavia very strongly in basic temperate agricultural products but improved it in other types of agro-food products. The massive supports and trade regulations of the EC have also increased its mutual competitiveness in agro-food compared to all traded items. In recent years are direction of agricultural policy has started in the EC from price support and increasing productivity to production cutbacks and direct income support. This seems to be the same path as the Scandinavian countries had to take earlier.

scholarly journals Brazil's Comparative Advantages and Specialization Dynamics in Agri-food Trade

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Ivo Zdráhal ◽  
Martin Hrabálek ◽  
Petr Kadlec ◽  
Oldřich Krpec
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Finite Structure ◽  
Comparative Advantages ◽  
External Shape

In the last decades Brazil has become a global agri-food powerhouse. The article interrogates the shape and its stability of revealed comparative advantages in 46 of its agri-food products for the period 1995-2017. The results support the argument that the Brazil's agri-food trade was formed by comparative advantages of specific agri-food sectors. The results show that the external shape of agri-food specialization has strengthened, first since early 2000s and second when the trade shifted more towards China. The pattern was stable according revealed comparative (dis)advantage of particular products, more changes occurred in each product's score and in ranking of products. Products without initial comparative advantage seem to remain uncompetitive whilst the products with strong initial comparative advantage continue to be competitive. The persistence in distribution has increased. This suggests, the shape of Brazil's revealed comparative advantage in agri-food trade has evolved towards its finite structure (ceteris paribus).

scholarly journals China’s trade competitiveness in the area of agricultural products after the implementation of the World Trade Organization commitments

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 379-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
 Fojtíková Lenka
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
The World

The paper provides evidence on the implementation of China’s trade commitments into its institutional and legal environment, which influenced its agricultural trade. The contribution to the trade balance index and the revealed comparative advantage index are used for the identification of changes in China’s export competitiveness in agricultural products between 2001 and 2015. The World Trade Organization (WTO) trade liberalisation, followed by changes in the structure of economy, contributed to China building a trade deficit in the area of the agricultural products and losing competitiveness in some products. China gradually liberalised its agricultural trade in compliance with the WTO commitments. However, relatively high protection or state regulation of the domestic market has remained in products that China exports with a revealed comparative disadvantage. The existence of the state trading can also have a negative impact on the results of China’s revealed comparative advantage in its exports of agricultural products.

scholarly journals Development and efficiency of agri-food foreign trade of the Slovak Republic in the international context

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
J. Gálik
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Trade Balance ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Context ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Trade Performance ◽  
Mutual Relations

The contribution is aimed at changes in the foreign trade of the Slovak Republic with agricultural and food products from 2004. The attention was paid to mutual relations of the imported and exported agricultural products. The contribution was supplemented by the comparison of the SR agri-food trade performance with the other EU member countries. To attain the objective, an unconventional methodical practice based on the calculation of trade balance per one inhabitant was used.

scholarly journals Agricultural Support Policies in Turkey

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibel Tan ◽  
Mehmet Hasdemir ◽  
Bengü Everest
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Agricultural Insurance ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Total Budget ◽  
The World ◽  
Direct Income

Agriculture is the leading strategic sector of Turkey as it was in entire world. Despite this strategic significance, risks and uncertainties because of the dependency on natural conditions turn agriculture into a disadvantaged sector. Just because of those disadvantages, agriculture is protected with various support policies throughout the world. Agricultural policies of Turkey have initiated with institutionalization policies of the Republican period and progressed through product supports, input supports and low-interest credit implementations of the planned period. These policies experienced serious reforms at the beginning of 2000s. Within the scope of Agricultural Reforms Implementation Project (ARIP), agricultural supports were tried to be gathered under a single roof and Direct Income Support (DIS) implementations have started. The DIS implementations lasted for 8 years and terminated in 2008. Current agricultural policy tools are implemented as area-based supports, subsidiary payments, rural development and agricultural insurance supports. The budget allocated to agriculture and the share of agricultural supports in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Turkey did not exhibit much change in years. Considering the policies and supports provided in developed countries and especially in European Union (EU) countries, it is recommended for Turkey that share of agricultural supports in total budget should be increased to levels in those countries.

scholarly journals Agri-food trade of the new member states since the EU accession

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (No. 3) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Török ◽  
A. Jámbor
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Member States ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Processed Products ◽  
The Eu

In 2004 and 2007, twelve New Member States (NMS) joined the European Union (EU), causing several changes in the field of agriculture. One of the major changes was the transformation of the national agri-food trade. The aim of the paper is to analyse the effects of the EU accession on the NMS agri-food trade, especially considering the revealed comparative advantages. The results suggest that the intensity of the NMS agri-food trade has increased significantly after the accession, though there was a serious deterioration in the NMS agri-food trade balance in most cases. It has also become evident that the NMS agri-food trade was highly concentrated by country and by product, though the concentration has not changed significantly after the EU accession. Moreover, our analyses highlight one of the most important characteristics of the NMS agri-food trade structure – the focus on the agri-food raw materials in export together with the agri-food processed products in import. As to the NMS agri-food trade specialisation, the diversity among member states becomes apparent. Almost all countries experienced a decrease in their comparative advantage after the accession, though it still remained at an acceptable level in most cases. As for the stability of the comparative advantage, the results suggest a weakening trend, underpinned by the convergence of the pattern of revealed comparative advantage. By estimating the survival function to the sample, it can be observed that the accession has radically changed the survival time of agri-food trade, meaning that the revealed comparative advantage has not turned out to be persistent in the period analysed. From the policy perspective, there is a clear need for structural changes in the NMS agriculture and agri-food sector in order to tackle the negative tendencies of the national agri-food trade. The most important long-term goal should be the production and export of higher value-added processed products based on domestic raw materials.  

scholarly journals Moroccan agricultural products in the single market: trade flows and competitiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Fernández Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
The Eu

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.

scholarly journals Eu integration: the meaning of the common agricultural policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Nadiia Kryvenko
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Introduction. Integration has reached its highest level of development in the EU, and particular attention is drawn to the agrarian integration and resolution of these problems at the beginning of the integration process. This in its turn confirms the significant importance of the agrarian sector for the member-states. Although, the majority of this market participant does not trade agricultural products. The growing global food problem, the positive consequences of the CAP for EU integration, the significant importance of the agricultural sector for Ukraine, which is one of the major exporters of some agri-food products, and the existence of a number of regional trade agreements confirm the importance of research of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Purpose. It is pivotal to explore the importance of the EU CAP for the development of EU integration, its goals and changes, the mechanism, the formation of a common market. In addition, it is a positive experience of the integration group and Ukraine can learn a lesson if manages to analyze the EU’s place in the world market of agricultural products. Methods. The methods of theoretical generalization, historical method, method of analysis, comparison, and graphical method were used in the article for revealing the features of the CAP and the EU as an exporter of agricultural products. Results. The research shows the importance of the agrarian integration of the EU (it is confirmed by the CAP) and the impact of the CAP on the development of integration. In the case of enlargement of the EU, difficulties are often caused by agrarian policy. The article analyzes the aims of the CAP, which varied during the group history depending on a number of factors, and it shows its flexibility and compliance with urgent problems. The creation of a common market and the use of appropriate regulatory measures (which can also be used by Ukraine) are analyzed. It is determined that the EU is one of the world’s major producers and exporters of agri-food products, and its export share of many product is more than 30% or even 50%. Discussion. In further research it is advisable to focus on the stages and reforms of the CAP and to take into account some new aims CAP for the agricultural policy of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Comparative advantage of exports from Serbia and Montenegro

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 153-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nebojsa Gagovic
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Mineral Raw Materials ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage Index

The revealed comparative advantage index shows country's share of world markets in a given product, relative to its share in all manufactures. It expresses what specific products the country exports, and where it losing or gaining advantage. For ease of interpretation this paper reports the logarithm of RCA measure. According to this measure, the leading export products are those with high and rising RCA. In the case of Serbia and Montenegro, an unusual mix of manufactures appears to be among leading industries, including footwear, clothes, agricultural products, and mineral raw-materials.

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