@article{Chang:330170,
      recid = {330170},
      author = {Chang, Ching-Cheng and Chen, Yi-Chieh and Chang, Yu-Chieh},
      title = {The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Implications for  the Fishery Sector in Taiwan},
      address = {2016},
      pages = {16},
      year = {2016},
      note = {Presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Washington DC, USA},
      abstract = {The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a  regional free trade agreement of broad scope and  comprehensive coverage with high-standard disciplines.  Under the current TPP agreement, tariffs on fish and  fishery products will ultimately be fully eliminated. To  support the liberalization effort, this study utilizes a  price-endogenous mathematical-programming-based Taiwan  fishery sector model (TFSM) to evaluate the potential  impact of eliminating tariffs on fishery production and  consumption in Taiwan. This qualified support for  liberalization stems from production systems for fish being  highly heterogeneous and subject to extensive levels of  management and border protection. The average nominal  tariff rate is 19.85% for Taiwan’s fishery products (HS  03), which is much higher than the average tariff of TPP  members’ fishery products, 3.62%. Thus, the tariff  elimination is expected to enlarge the fishery import  significantly. Thus, the removal of low tariff barriers  cannot stimulate more export for Taiwan’s fishery products.   We use the UN FAO database and Taiwan’s official data to  compare the highest import price and lowest export price of  all fishery products between TPP members and Taiwan. The  result shows that the total production value of fishery  sector will be reduced by 3.90%, in which the potential  import products increased by 104.52% and the potential  export reduced products by 5.77%. The tariff elimination  would also reduce the domestic price of fishery products.  For example, the production of saury, mackerel, clams and  other offshore and coastal fish reduced more than 10.23%,  while the import of these product increased 10~15%. Thus,  the government has to negotiate a reasonable transitional  period for implementing structural reforms in response.  Meanwhile the fishery industry has to enhance their  operational efficiency to meet the challenges of  globalization and high-standard free trade agreement.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/330170},
}