2017
DOI: 10.12783/dteees/icnerr2017/13323
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Does Korea Restrict its Imports of the Primary Agricultural Products?

Abstract: This paper empirically examines the trade patterns of the Korean primary agricultural products to assess how much the Korean trade policy restricts the imports of this product category. We use yearly trade data from 1976 to 2016 to obtain the revealed symmetric comparative advantage and the trade balance. The difference between the two indicators can reveal the policy interference tendency. To our surprise, the results show that Korean policy contrarily facilitates the imports of primary agricultural products … Show more

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“…1 and Fig. 3, the RSCA curve remain steady at disadvantage level, which is the proof of Lin [6] , Hong [7] and the author's view [8] , economic development should be in accordance with its comparative advantage, not far from it; government intervention might be effective in a short time, but will be not applicable or even harmful in the long run.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…1 and Fig. 3, the RSCA curve remain steady at disadvantage level, which is the proof of Lin [6] , Hong [7] and the author's view [8] , economic development should be in accordance with its comparative advantage, not far from it; government intervention might be effective in a short time, but will be not applicable or even harmful in the long run.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…According to the comparative advantage theory, the more goods the country imports, the smaller, but not the bigger, the comparative advantage is under the same conditions. Therefore, a negative sign was added artificially to for consistency [5].…”
Section: A Trade Patterns For Exports 1) Revealed Symmetric Comparatmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the Chinese export facilitating has little effect in the improvement of the Chinese comparative advantages. With regard to the imports, [9], Hong, Sun and Mu (2016) [10] focused on the Japanese imports of agricultural products, while Hong, Shao and Mu (2016) investigated the Korean imports of primary agricultures [11] to assess the import policies.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%