Measuring the Impact of Distortions in Agricultural Trade in Partial and General Equilibrium

May 1, 2003

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Stephen Tokarick. Measuring the Impact of Distortions in Agricultural Trade in Partial and General Equilibrium, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper provides quantitative estimates of the impact of removing agricultural support (both tariffs and subsidies) in partial- and general-equilibrium frameworks. The results show that agricultural support in industrial countries is highly distortionary and tariffs have a larger distortionary impact than subsidies. Removal of agricultural support would likely raise the international prices of food, resulting in an increase in the cost of food for many net-food- importing countries, although the increase is generally small. The results also show that most of the benefits from removing agricultural support accrue to the countries that liberalize.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, Imports, International trade, Price incentives, Prices, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, Agricultural Trade, Demand price, East Africa, Global, Imports, Input subsidy, Market price, Market price price support, Middle East, Models, North Africa, Price incentives, Production subsidy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsidies, Tariffs, Welfare effect, World price, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

45
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2003/110
Stock No:

WPIEA1102003
ISBN:

9781451853360
ISSN:

1018-5941

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