@article{Emlinger:153523,
      recid = {153523},
      author = {Emlinger, Charlotte and Chevassus-Lozza, Emmanuelle and  Jacquet, Florence},
      title = {Liberalization of Euro-Mediterranean trade: customs  tariffs are not the main obstacle to European fruit and  vegetable imports},
      journal = {INRA Sciences Sociales},
      address = {2010-01},
      number = {910-2016-71807},
      series = {ISS},
      pages = {5},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {While the liberalization of trade in industrial products  is well underway, access to the market in the agricultural  sector still remains limited. The issues of agricultural  trade liberalization vary from one side of the  Mediterranean to the other. For Southern and Eastern  Mediterranean countries, the two main issues are the  protection of the basic market products and the improvement  in access to the European
market for export produce, namely  fruit and vegetables. European producers fear an  exacerbation of Mediterranean competition in this same  sector, sensitive to crises and with relatively little  support from
the Common Agricultural Policy. The issue of  access to the European market for Mediterranean fruit and  vegetables is all the more sensitive in that the EU is the  main market for horticultural export from these countries.  An analysis of the tariff protections applied by the EU to  fruit and vegetable imports reveals that Mediterranean  countries already enjoy a high level of preference on the  European market compared
with other exporting countries.  Additionally, the estimation of an econometrical model  shows that customs protection is not the only trade  determinant. Tariff reduction appears to be far from  eliminating all the obstacles to trade.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/153523},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.153523},
}