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EU Trade Policies: Benchmarking Protection in a General Equilibrium Framework

Antimiani, Alessandro; Salvatici, Luca - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2005

protection based on the applied tariffs faced by each exporter. In order to do this, an index of trade policy restrictiveness is … computed, using the Mercantilistic Trade Restrictiveness Index as the tariff aggregator. We also analyze the protection granted … to each sector by the existing tariff structure. In this report, we compute effective rates of protection that overcome …

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Not in Your Backyard? Selective Tariff Cuts for Environmentally Preferable Products

Estelle, Gozlan; Ramos, Maria Priscila - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

Current negotiations at the WTO’s Committee on Trade and Environment have made it conceivable that WTO members agree on selective tariff cuts for certain Environmentally Preferable Products, in an attempt to combine gains from trade and from cleaner production/consumption. This raises...

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Measuring Protection: Mission Impossible?

Salvatici, Luca; Cipollina, Maria - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006

In the international trade literature there seems to be some confusion between "openness" and "protection" measures … extent of the protection granted by policies rather than on the degree of openness of the economy. Given the huge size of …

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The role of EBA in the political economy of CAP reform

Matthews, Alan; Gallezot, Jacques - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006

This paper explores whether the EU's Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme, under which exports from 50 least developed countries (LDCs) are admitted duty-free to the EU market, influenced the trajectory or pace of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. It finds no evidence that it played a role...

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Collected Customs Duties: A Comparative Analysis of the Protection Applied by the US and the EU

Aussilloux, Vincent; Gallezot, Jacques - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006

Relating the collected customs duty to the value of imports enables to estimate a rate of applied duty that takes into account all the pricing components and their utilisation. Indeed, this ad-valorem equivalent integrates the complex dimensions of customs duties, the measures of exemption and...

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Prospects for EU Biofuel Production and Trade

Bamiére, Laure; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Guinde, Loic; … - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

The paper provides background information regarding the EU policy on biofuels. The purpose is to assess whether this policy may lead to an increased use of European agricultural products to provide energy, or whether it is more likely that the EU will shift towards imports of biofuels. The paper...

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MIRAGE, Updated Version of the Model for Trade Policy Analysis: Focus on Agriculture and Dynamics

Decreux, Yvan; Valin, Hugo - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

MIRAGE is a multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model, devoted to trade policy analysis. It incorporates imperfect competition, horizontal and vertical product differentiation, and foreign direct investment, in a sequential dynamic set-up where installed capital is assumed...

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Concessions and Exemptions for Developing Countries in the Agricultural Negotiations: The Role of the Special and Differential Treatment

Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Jean, Sebastien; Matthews, Alan - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2005

The main provisions of the special and differential treatment (SDT) granted to developing countries in the agriculture and food sector under the present World Trade Organization agreements are presented. The different provisions seem to have had a limited impact on developing countries, and...

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How does tariff-rate quota modelling affect CGE results? An application for MIRAGE

Decreux, Yvan; Ramos, Maria Priscila - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

Since the Uruguay Round Agricultural Agreement (URAA) entered into force in 1994, tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) have become the most widely used trade policy instrument to improve agricultural market access while at the same time controlling import volumes. Until now, the MIRAGE CGE model only takes...

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Shipping the good beef out: EU trade liberalization to Mercosur exports

Ramos, Maria Priscila; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; … - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

The European Union tariff schedule includes a large number of specific and composite tariffs as well as many tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), which affect the composition of imports. By altering price ratios between products with different unit values, both can generate the typical Alchian-Allen...

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