in the cork business: raw cork, corkwood in planks and stoppers of natural cork. Given that prices of these products are … different tests of coherence and credibility, Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher’s indexes and a “synthetic cork deflator” are …

The aim of this paper is to undertake a comparative analysis of the particular features of the foreign trade in cork … occurred in the foreign trade in cork products from the two countries. This analysis highlights the Spanish loss of leadership … in the area of cork exports, which passed to Portuguese producers after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Next we …

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish cork industry lost its hegemonic position to Portugal in … the world market of manufactured cork. In this work we intend to demonstrate that one of the most important explanations … for the consolidation of Portuguese leadership in the cork business lies in the formation and development of the …

1939㈀1959 to revive the exports of cork products, which had fallen sharply since the beginning of the crisis of 1929. The … first measure, implemented in 1939 and 1940, was granting tax reliefs to exporters of several cork products; its impact on … commercial traffic of cork was very low. The second measure was the establishment, between 1946 and 1950, of a subsidies system …

review Montes e Industrias, let us to make a description of the forest works in the cork-oak forests of Morocco. …

Cork stoppers may taint as many as one in 33 bottles of all domestic US wines. Yet, because tradition is thought to … need to test whether cork closures are indeed a critical consumer expectation. This paper serves as a guide toward … understanding the obstacles which must first be overcome by those producers who wish to adopt cork substitutes for fine wines. This …