This article decomposes the impact of imports on domestic price-cost margins into separate price and cost effects …. Using data from 24 food-processing industries, the empirical results show that although the direct impact of imports on …-price elasticity of demand and diseconomies of scale. Further results show that the disciplining effect of imports is more preponderant …

The main aim of the article was an analysis of the significance of imports in the supply of material for the Polish and … German agri-food sectors. The results of the analysis point to the fact that foreign trade is an important factor stabilising … the development of the food sector in Poland and in Germany. However, in Germany imports are a much stronger stimulator of …

includes a partial liberalization of rice imports in Japan and South Korea from the year completing the minimum market access … commitments under the UR agreement to 2010. The full trade liberalization scenario includes a full liberalization of rice imports …, and technological change.This report evaluates three scenarios: the base scenario, the partial trade liberalization …

still exist. The trade indicators demonstrate that Uganda exports largely primary products and imports manufactured products … integration. Whereas exports are being integrated more in the EAC and COMESA regions, imports are more integrated in the Asian and …This paper examines factors that determine Uganda’s trade flows and specifically compares the impact and performance of …

Higher commodity prices, especially for coarse grains and oilseeds, raised total U~S. agricultural exports to $24 … and the U.s. economic recovery helped push agricultural imports up to $11 billion in fiscal year 1984, $1.5 bill ion over … downward trend. U.S. farm product exports totaled $34.8 billion during fiscal year 1983, down 11 percent from the 1982 value …

. S. agricultural imports in 1984 jumped to a record $19.3 billion, up $2.8 billion. from 1983. High U.S. interest rates … and rapid economic growth helped strengthen the dollar in 1984. Agricultural exports under U.S. Government financed … percent below 1983's record and 3 percent of all U.S. agricultural exports in FY 1984. U.S. agricultural exports to Sub …

This statistical reference summarizes current and historical data on U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products …. Tables highlight commodity and country information, including values, quantities, principal markets for agricultural exports …

principal markets of agricultural imports and exports; exports under specified Government-financed programs; and transshipments …This statistical reference presents current and historic analytical data on U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products …

) most important to U.S. agri- cultural trade during July. U.S. agricultural exports benefit both the farm and nonfarm …Rising foreign production, falling prices, and shrinking volume pushed down U.S. agricultural exports 17 percent in ….S. agricultural imports to $18.1 billion during the first 11 months of FY 1985, 5 percent above those of the same period in 1984. The …

.S. agricultural exports...Canada and Mexico provided about 25 percent of the $20.8 billion of agricultural goods imported into the … United States during October 1990-August 1991...U.S. agricultural exports generated $1.59 (an additional$62.8 billion) from …