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| Title: | Quantifying non-tariff measures in international agricultural trade: a tariff equivalent of technical barriers to trade on African horticultural exports to the European markets |
| Authors: | Nimenya, Nicodeme
Henry de Frahan, Bruno
Ndimira, Pascal-Firmin |
| Keywords: | Armington elasticity of substitution
price-wedge method
tariff-equivalent |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Fresh food and agricultural products from sub-
Saharan Africa meet few tariff barriers because of preferential
market access granted to ACP countries through Lomé and
Cotonou Act. However, non-tariff barriers are still serious
impediments to trade. This paper focuses more specifically on
technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and
phytosanitary measures (SPS) on horticultural exports from
Kenya and Zambia to France, Germany, the Netherlands and
United-Kingdom. Using an extension of price-wedge method
that takes into account imperfect substitution (on demand
side) and differences in factor endowments (on supply side), we
provide a tariff-equivalent of a wide range of TBT.
Preliminary results show that the tariff-equivalent of TBT is
very high for Kenyan green beans exports (more than 56%)
while it is low for Kenya’s exports of peas and avocados and
Zambian exports of peas (less than 10%). However, there are
no large differences between EU importing countries. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44195 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 5 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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