Agricultural trade restrictiveness in the European Union and the United States

Jean-Christophe Bureau and Luca Salvatici ()

Agricultural Economics, 2005, vol. 33, issue s3, pages 479-490

Abstract: The article provides a summary measure of the Uruguay Round tariff reduction commitments in the European Union and the United States, using the Mercantilistic Trade Restrictiveness Index (MTRI) as the tariff aggregator. We compute the index for agricultural commodity aggregates assuming a specific (constant elasticity of substitution) functional form for import demand. The levels of the MTRI under the actual commitments of the Uruguay Round are computed and compared with two hypothetical cases, a deeper cut in higher tariffs and a uniform reduction of each tariff, both leading to the same average reduction as in the Uruguay Round. This makes it possible to infer how reducing tariff dispersion will help improve market access in future trade agreements, and provides some guidelines for aggregating detailed tariffs in trade models. Copyright 2005 International Association of Agricultural Economics.

Date: 2005
View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1574-0864.2005.00346.x link to full text (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: Agricultural Trade Restrictiveness in the European Union and the United States (2001)
Working Paper: Agricultural trade restrictiveness in the European Union and the United States (2005)
Working Paper: Agricultural Trade Restrictiveness in the European Union and the United States (2001)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:agecon:v:33:y:2005:i:s3:p:479-490

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0169-5150

Access Statistics for this article

Agricultural Economics is edited by W.A. Masters and G.E. Shively

More articles in Agricultural Economics from International Association of Agricultural Economists
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().