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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
The Art of Exceptions: Sensitive Products in the Doha Negotiations
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| Autores: |
Gouel, Christophe
Mitaritonna, Cristina
Ramos, Maria Priscila
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| Data: |
2011-09-13
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| Ano: |
2010
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agricultural trade
Doha Development Agenda
CGE model
Disaggregation
Sensitive products
Tariff-rate quotas
Agricultural and Food Policy
C68
F13
F17
Q17
Q18
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| Resumo: |
It is necessary for multilateral trade negotiations to include exceptions to accommodate politically sensitive sectors. However, given the highly concentrated distribution of agricultural protection, too many exceptions put at risk the objectives of World Trade Organization. This paper assesses the delicate balance required, based on the case of agricultural trade protection in Europe and Japan, two countries where tariff dismantling in the agricultural sector is a particularly sensitive issue. Since agricultural border protection is heterogeneous, we avoid aggregation bias by extending a multi-country computable general equilibrium model to the product level. This allows us to combine the assets from general equilibrium and partial equilibrium modeling, and to take explicit account of interdependencies and trade policies. The results suggest that consideration of sensitive products strongly limits the potential gains from a possible agriculture agreement at Doha. Moreover, there is no aggregate trade-off between decreasing tariffs and increasing/opening quotas. To achieve “substantial” market access improvements in the agricultural sector, the objective should be most favored nation tariff reduction.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/115431
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| Relação: |
AgFoodTRade - New Issues in Agricultural, Food and Bioenergy Trade>Public Working Papers
Working Paper
2010-04
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| Formato: |
21
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