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Quota Prices as Indicators of Comparative Advantage in Supply Managed Industries
Rajsic, Predrag; Fox, Glenn - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2012
The Canadian Farm Products Agencies Act (2012) requires that comparative advantage be used to guide the allocation of new quota under supply management. This requirement, however, has not been met in practice. Agricultural economists have proposed several ways of making this legal requirement...
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The Accession of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine to the WTO: What will it Mean for the World Trade in Wheat?
Burkitbayeva, Saule; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
2050.The KRU (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) countries account for approximately a quarter of world wheat exports and are … collectively considered one of the key wheat exporting regions. The Ukraine became a member of the WTO only in 2008. Russia became … an official member of the WTO in 2012 and Kazakhstan is expected to follow Russia and reach an accession deal with WTO …
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Do Efficient Dairy Producers Purchase Quota?
Elskamp, Rebecca; Hailu, Getu - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
We examine the effect of farm level cost and scale efficiencies on dairy quota exchanges in Ontario. A constrained profit maximization framework is used to illustrate the role of cost efficiency in quota exchanges (i.e., sales and purchases). Using a multinomial logit model, where net quota...
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Post-Moratorium EU Regulation of Genetically Modified Products: Triffid Flax
Viju, Crina; Yeung, May T.; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2011
Until there is a successful challenge at the WTO, the EU policy on LLP is likely to remain in place. Under this policy, there is a zero tolerance level for GM material that has not received EU authorization. Zero tolerance, however, has to be operationalized – what does an exporting country...
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Geograpical Indications, Barriers to Market Access and Preferential Trade Agreements
Viju, Crina; Yeung, May T.; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2012
Public policy makers in Canada should expect the US to object to the extension of protection to EU GIs in the CETA. The expected gains made in other areas of the CETA for agreeing to protect EU GIs need to be weighed carefully against the potential cost of trade actions through NAFTA. The NAFTA...
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Canadian Agrifood Export Performance and the Growth Potential of the BRICs and Next-11
Cairns, Alexander P.; Meilke, Karl D. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882177
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The TRIPS Agreement as a Coercive Threat: Estimating the Effects of Trade Ties on IPR Enforcement
Cardwell, Ryan T.; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2012
Negotiators from developed countries pushed hard for the inclusion of the TRIPS Agreement in the WTO set of agreements because it was viewed as a potentially effective method of coercing developing countries to strengthen their protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). We investigate...
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Was Food Safety Declining?: Assessing the Justification for the US Food Safety Modernisation Act
Nakuja, Tekuni; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
Food safety regulations limit trade in bioproducts. Every country, however, has a duty to protect its citizens from food safety hazards. If risks are increasing under an existing food safety system then a strengthening of the regulatory regime can be justified, with the inevitable negative...
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The Changing Structure of Domestic Support and Its Implications for Trade
Orden, David - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
commitments of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and their levels of agricultural support are examined …, including the domestic support commitments of Russia under its accession to the WTO in 2012. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909667
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The Great Recession and Import Protection: A Look Back at the U.S. Experience
Prusa, T.J. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
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