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| Meilke, Karl D.; Lariviere, Sylvain; Martin, Craig. |
| The world dairy industry is one of the most heavily protected in the agri-food sector. Exports of dairy products are dominated by the EU, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. The major importers of dairy products are far less concentrated but include the EU, Japan, Mexico, Russia, the United States, and many others. The Canadian dairy industry came out of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations with the continued ability to practise supply management, thereby allowing it to: (1) maintain prices above world market levels and (2) control the allocation of output to the domestic market. In fact, the Agreement on Agriculture opened the door for Canada to become a more aggressive exporter of dairy products by practising price discrimination between... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Dairy; Dispute; Export competition; Price discrimination; Processors; Tariffication; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23855 |
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| Meilke, Karl D.; Lariviere, Sylvain. |
| Contact for this paper: Dr. Karl Meilke, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada. The international dairy sector is one of the most heavily protected commodity sectors in agriculture. Following the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade liberalization all nontariff barriers to trade were converted, through the process of tariffication, into tariffs. However, in the dairy sector, the border measure most commonly adopted by developed countries was a system of tariff rate quotas. Tariff rate quotas are two-tiered tariffs which allow a small quantity of the product to be imported at a low or zero tariff, while quantities above the minimum access amount are charged much higher and often prohibitive tariffs. Tariff... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14579 |
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