Small Fish - Big Issues The Effect of Trade Policy on the Global Shrimp Market

Peter Debaere

No 5254, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: It is a well-established theoretical result that the trade policy of a large country can directly affect its own and other countries' welfare by affecting international goods prices. However, there exist very few empirical studies that analyze the effect of trade policy on international prices. With detailed data on unit values and tariffs, I show how policy actions in Europe disrupted the global shrimp market in a non-negligible way and set the stage for the current anti-dumping case in the US. The loss of Thailand's preferential trade status in Europe and the international differences in food safety standards during the antibiotics crisis, have shifted esp. Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese shrimp exports away from Europe towards the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I document how these shifting markets have decreased US prices for shrimp significantly compared to those in Europe.

Keywords: International; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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