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Laroche Dupraz, Catherine; Matthews, Alan. |
Tariff rate quotas (TRQs) were introduced and legitimised as a market access instrument in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA). TRQs combine both restrictions on imports, as well as safeguarding current or preferential agricultural trade flows. When market access is restricted by a high tariff level beyond the quota, exporters that enjoy the low in-quota tariff may be able to gain a share of the quota rent. The paper analyses the implementation of 87 EU agricultural TRQs between 1997 and 2002 to examine their economic significance from the point of view of developing countries. Analysis of the database shows that TRQ trade can generate a high preference margin but that the potential rent is not so high. Moreover, this potential rent is... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Tariff rate quotas; Quota rents; Developing countries; International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7213 |
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Laroche Dupraz, Catherine; Postolle, Angele. |
The 2008 food crisis has challenged the political legitimacy and economic efficiency of the liberalization of international agricultural trade. An alternative vision defended by the food sovereignty movement is that longterm food security cannot rely on dependency on food imports, but must be built on the development of domestic production with enough barrier protection to shelter it from world price fluctuations and unfair trading. The purpose of this paper is to look into whether the West African nations can achieve food sovereignty given their various trade commitments and other external constraints. The particularity of our approach is to combine a historical economic analysis with a political approach to food sovereignty and trade commitments. Our... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food sovereignty; West Africa; Protection; Agricultural policy; WTO negotiations; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115439 |
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