Agricultural Trade Liberalization: The Ever‐Elusive Grail

McCalla, Alex F.

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“…Knowledge on the impacts and ramifications of trade remedy laws in the agricultural sector may help to provide a step towards a better understanding of the trade talks and to decide what other issues need to be addressed. It has become clear that much of the delay in completing trade talks has centered upon the inability to agree upon issues related to agriculture McCalla(1993). The stories purporting hardship at the farm level and a large (cohesive) agricultural lobby are more likely to receive an audience from governments, in the midst of trade negotiations, than are accolades from a fragmented and diverse beneficiary.…”

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Antidumping Duties in the Agriculture Sector: Trade Restricting or Trade Deflecting?

2008

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The key issues on the negotiation table in the agriculture sector are the elimination of export subsidies, a progressive reduction of tariffs and reduction in domestic support. However, it is observed that trade liberalization often involves moving from one set of distortions to another rather than a movement to free trade. More specifically, in the case of trade liberalization in manufacturing, countries have replaced lower tariffs with antidumping duties (ADD). Feinberg and Olson (2005) empirically show that countries that agreed to larger tariff reductions under the Uruguay Round are more likely to use AD statutes to protect their domestic industries. Thus if the use of ADD in agriculture are effective as a trade barrier (that is there is little trade diversion) then negotiators might need to include AD reform along-with lower tariffs in their future negotiations. In this paper we analyze whether imposition of an antidumping duty restrict imports of the named commodity or is the supply of imports deflected from countries named in the petition to countries not named in the antidumping petition? We find that AD duties have had a significant impact on the imports of agricultural commodities from countries named on the petition. However, our results also indicate that there was little trade diversion towards countries not named in the AD petition. It seems that AD is a plausible protectionist policy.

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Antidumping Duties in the Agriculture Sector: Trade Restricting or Trade Deflecting?

2008

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“…Sektor rolnictwa uznawany jest jako obj ty najwy sz protekcj sektor gospodarek narodowych, najbardziej niezdyscyplinowany obszar handlu mi dzynarodowego i przyczyna najwi kszych konfliktów w mi dzynarodowych stosunkach gospodarczych (McCalla, 1993(McCalla, , s. 1102(McCalla, -1112. Grant i Lambert (2008) dowiedli, e w liberalizowaniu wymiany artyku ami rolnymi, skuteczniejsze od traktatów i rozporz dze wiatowej Organizacji Handlu by y regionalne porozumienia handlowe (Grant i Lambert, 2008).…”

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Zmiany w polskim handlu zagranicznym produktami rolno spożywczymi z Federacją Rosyjską w latach 2006-2015

Batyk

2018

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The aim of the article is to identify the most important changes in Polish foreign trade in agri-food products with the Russian Federation in the years 2006-2015. To verify these shifts, changes over time and the structure of foreign trade in agri-food products in 2006-2015 were analyzed. The value of Poland's foreign trade turnover with Russia, the turnover balance and the share of agri-food products in trade were presented. The value of imports and exports in the categories of agri-food product groups and the dynamics of the import and export of agri-food products was also presented. The article is the result of the analysis of literature and statistical studies. Data from the Statistical Yearbook of Foreign Trade was used. Trade exchange of agri-food products is characterized by an advantage of exports from Poland to Russia. The value of trading these products was reduced after the restrictions of the Russian Federation in 2014 on the import of these products from the EU. The dynamics of exports to Russia were dependent on the category of products. The most significant changes were related to products of plant and animal origin, because their exports depended on trade barriers resulting from the geopolitical situation. To improve Polish-Russian economic and trade relations, Russia must accept EU standards for the production and veterinary and phytosanitary certification of agri-food products.

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“…Choć artykuły rolne nie zostały wyodrębnione w mandacie negocjacyjnym UE, stanowią jeden z najtrudniejszych obszarów rokowań TTIP. Podobnie jak na forum WTO, 201 rolnictwo jawi się jako "objęty najwyższą protekcją sektor gospodarek narodowych, najbardziej niezdyscyplinowany obszar handlu międzynarodowego i przyczyna najbardziej niebezpiecznych konfliktów w międzynarodowych stosunkach gospodarczych" (McCalla, 1993). Z badań Granta i Lamberta (2008) wynika jednak, że w liberalizowaniu wymiany artykułami rolnymi skuteczniejsze niż WTO były do tej pory regionalne porozumienia handlowe.…”

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Znaczenie wymiany bilateralnej w handlu zagranicznym produktami rolno-spożywczymi UE i USA

Pawlak

2017

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The aim of the paper was to assess the importance of the bilateral turnover to the EU and the US foreign trade in agri-food products in 2001-2016, as well as to define the possibilities of its development after signing the TTIP Agreement. The research is based on the data from the ComExt Database in the resources of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Trade System. It was proved that in 2001-2016 the EU and the US were important trade partners for each other, but the value of bilateral trade in agri-food products remained relatively small, largely due to low complementarity of the Polish and American agriculture and the resulting minor demand for agricultural products from the temperate zone in the US. These products are made in the US, usually at a lower cost, and they are the export surplus of this country. The way to intensify the EU-US bilateral trade may be to develop a transatlantic free trade area, resulting in a strong effect of trade creation between the TTIP parties, with a limited impact on the relationship with other trading partners.

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Agricultural Trade Liberalization: The Ever‐Elusive Grail

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Antidumping Duties in the Agriculture Sector: Trade Restricting or Trade Deflecting?

Antidumping Duties in the Agriculture Sector: Trade Restricting or Trade Deflecting?

Zmiany w polskim handlu zagranicznym produktami rolno spożywczymi z Federacją Rosyjską w latach 2006-2015

Znaczenie wymiany bilateralnej w handlu zagranicznym produktami rolno-spożywczymi UE i USA

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