@article{Fiankor:244352,
      recid = {244352},
      author = {Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe and Ehrich, Malte and Brümmer,  Bernhard},
      title = {EU-African Regional Trade Agreements as a Development Tool  to Reduce EU Border Rejections},
      address = {2016-08-30},
      number = {858-2016-60293},
      series = {GlobalFood Discussion Paper},
      pages = {22},
      month = {Aug},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The integration of developing countries into the world  trading system is an important development mechanism to  reduce poverty in these countries. Regional Trade  Agreements (RTAs) have recently spread in terms of quantity  and type. Some of these, like the Economic Partnership  Agreements (EPAs) differ from previous RTAs as they  explicitly support export capacities of developing  countries. Therefore, it is particularly relevant to  investigate the effect of eligibility for various types of  RTAs first on exports and second on rejections at EU  borders. Empirical analysis is carried out on 52 African  countries' exports of fruits, nuts and vegetables and fish  to the EU-27 from 2008 to 2013. Adopting the gravity  framework we find that only EBA eligibility has induced  significantly exports of fruits, nuts and vegetables from  Africa to the EU-27. Estimating different count models  using border rejection data from the EU Rapid Alert System  for Food and Feed database, we also find other trade  enhancing effects of RTAs that go beyond tariff reductions,  as all EU-Africa RTAs have negative effects on border  rejections. The effects nevertheless differ across  agreements and products. Specifically, EPA eligibility  decreases rejections on both products, GSP decreases  rejections on fish and fish products and FTA (TDCA and  Euro-Med) decreases rejections on fruits, nuts and  vegetables.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/244352},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.244352},
}