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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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Third Country Effects of Price Discrimination: The Case of the Canadian Wheat Board

Rude, James; Brewin, Derek G.; White, Martin - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2007

This study considers whether the major concern with the behaviour of exporting state trading enterprises (STEs) should be the practice of price discrimination. Using a differentiated products world wheat model, the impacts of Canadian price discrimination on the welfare of competing exporters...

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Is There Supply Distortion In The Green Box? An Acreage Response Approach

Bakhshi, Samira; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2009

The shift of the farm subsidies toward programs classified as being decoupled income supports in the WTO’s URAA raises the question of their true impact on production and trade. In this study, we measured the acreage effects of the Canadian whole farm programs under uncertainty. Based on the...

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Revealed Comparative Advantage and Half-A-Century Competitiveness of Canadian Agriculture: A Case Study of Wheat, Beef and Pork Sectors

Sarker, Rakhal; Ratnesena, Shashini - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2014

While the competitiveness of the Canadian agri-food sector attracted significant research attention since the mid 1980s …, no study has measured competitiveness using longitudinal data and determined empirically the drivers of competitiveness …. This article contributes to the competitiveness literature by measuring the international competitiveness of wheat, beef …

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The New Food Safety Regime in the US: How Will it Affect Canadian Competitiveness

Nakuja, Tekuni; Akhand, M.; Hobbs, Jill E.; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2011

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) which was signed into law in January, 2011 represents a major initiative to improve food safety in the US. The legislation mandates the US Food and Drug Administration with developing a regulatory system to implement the Act. As yet, the full effect of...

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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

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An Empirical Investigation into the Determinants of Trade Policy Bias

Hink, Matthew J.; Cardwell, Ryan T.; Lawley, Chad - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2012

There exists an extensive literature that attempts to identify important factors that determine trade policies. An understanding of these important factors could be useful when negotiating trade agreements, especially in agriculture, which is a relatively heavily supported industry. Limao and...

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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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