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Over the last 15 years, the global trade of virgin olive oil (VOO) seems to face a stringent regulatory regime, mainly through the imposition of TBT and SPS measures. Such a development should have adversely impacted global levels of VOO trade. However, evidence shows that the world's imports of...
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The increasing policy interests and the vivid academic debate on non-tariff measures (NTMs) has stimulated a growing literature on how NTMs affect agri-food trade. The empirical literature provides contrasting and heterogeneous evidence, with some studies supporting the ‘standards as...
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Korean Abstract: WTO/DDA 농업협상 그룹 의장 2차초안에 따라 관세를 감축할 경우 농산물 관세의 평균 감축률은 선진국이 개도국에 비해 20% 포인트 정도 높을 것으로 분석되었다. 개도국으로 분류한 5개국의 평균 관세 감축률은...
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This paper evaluates the role of tariffs in the overall trade barriers faced by Mediterranean countries that export …
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In 2001 an agreement was reached at the WTO for the EU to introduce a tariff-only regime which would result in at least maintaining total market access for MFN banana suppliers. The analysis shows that, contrary to the WTO 2005 ruling, the import regime proposed by the EU in the second step of...
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India has submitted notifications to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on domestic support to agricultural producers in 1995-2003. This paper reviews India's notifications and summarizes the related discussion in the WTO Committee on Agriculture of some key issues relating to the rules of the...
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We investigate Botswana's beef export competitiveness using indices of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and data … 1970s. It is argued that, state trading export operations and non-reciprocal trade preferences with the EU have enhanced … competitiveness through facilitating export market access. However, the single channel exportation arrangement, through a loss …
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This article empirically investigates the impact of trade barriers on the world wine trade, focusing on trade costs impeding exports, including transport, tariffs, technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitarystandards. A gravity model is estimated using data from the main importing and...
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We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food security in developing economies and draw out its implications for East Africa and future research. While there is now an extensive literature on the impacts of trade reform on...
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The relationship between ethanol, corn and oil prices are analyzed under two alternative situations, depending on whether or not consumers purchase ethanol on the basis of its contribution to mileage. In all cases, market prices of ethanol can be above or below the consumer price paid for...
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