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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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Alternative Market Access Scenarios in the Agricultural Trade Negotiations of the Doha Round

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

The paper explores an important issue in multilateral agricultural trade negotiations, namely the approach taken to reduce tariffs, simulating possible liberalization scenarios. The analysis is based on the model of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), and on the related version 6.0...

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Reciprocal Trade Agreements in Gravity Models: A Meta-analysis

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

Over the time a large number of reciprocal preferential trade agreements (RTAs) have been concluded among countries. Recently many studies have used gravity equations in order to estimate the effect of RTAs on trade flows between partners. These studies report very different estimates since they...

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Assessing the 2003 CAP Reform: Sensitivity to the Decoupling of Agenda 2000 Direct Payments

Gohin, Alexandre - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006

The European Union decided in June 2003 a new reform of its farm policy with a new step toward the decoupling of farm income support instruments. Available impact studies find that this reform will reduce production incentives, substantially for beef and to a lesser extent for arable crops. All...

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The 2005 episodes of the "banana war" serial. An empirical assessment of the introduction by the European Union of a tariff-only import regime for bananas.

Anania, Giovanni - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006

The EU Common Market Organization for bananas has been generating international controversies since its introduction in 1992. Many thought the 'banana war' had come to an end when, at the 2001 WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, a Decision was taken for the EU to introduce, no later than 1...

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Estimating price elasticities of food trade functions: How relevant is the gravity approach?

Femenia, Fabienne; Gohin, Alexandre - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

The main objective of the paper is related to the long standing issue of the econometric estimation of price elasticity of food trade functions. We investigate the relevance of the prominent gravity approach. This approach is based on the assumptions of symmetric, monotone, homothetic, CES...

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Agricultural tariff rate quotas in the EU 1997-2002: Do developing countries enjoy quota rents?

Laroche Dupraz, Catherine; Matthews, Alan - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

Tariff rate quotas (TRQs) were introduced and legitimised as a market access instrument in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA). TRQs combine both restrictions on imports, as well as safeguarding current or preferential agricultural trade flows. When market access is restricted by a...

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Trade-distorting SPS and TBT regulations in the EU? A qualitative assessment from the market for live plants and cut flowers.

Drogue, Sophie; Gozlan, Estelle - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2007

Using specific estimation of ad-valorem equivalents, the paper compares sectors where observed trade flows are significantly lower than predicted flows, with sectors where a SPS/TBT measure is notified in the TRAINS database. Only three sectors are found where a significant negative coefficient...

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