export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple … indicate that the export demand elasticity for U.S. cotton was about -1.7 and that the optimal export tax of about 50 percent …The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much …

The impacts of using export taxes as a price control in a multi-market framework are explored using the cotton and yarn … sectors in Pakistan as examples. Results show that the export tax on cotton increased domestic consumption and decreased … social loss to Pakistan in the cotton sector. The export tax on cotton increased domestic yarn production, consumption …