THE SUGAR MARKET IN COLOMBIA AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH THE USA MARKET

Leonardo Raffo López

Revista de Economía y Administración, 2011

Abstract: En este artículo se propone un modelo de equilibrio parcial para entender el comportamiento del mercado del azúcar en Colombia y sus interacciones comerciales con la economía norteamericana. Se evalúan los posibles efectos de un TLC con Estados Unidos sobre el mercado, al igual que la incidencia de otros factores internos y externos. Se prueba que el impacto de un TLC entre Colombia y Estados Unidos depende del balancede dos fuerzas contrapuestas: el incremento en la proporción de la cuota que corresponde a las exportaciones colombianas, y la baja progresiva que se ha venido presentando en la cuota total de la economía norteamericana.In this paper it is proposed a partial equilibrium model for the sugar market of Colombia to understand its trade relations with the North-American economy. The possible effects of a Free Trade Agreement and of other internal and external factors are examined modelling the functioning of the North-American sugar market. It is proved that the impact of a FTA between Colombia and the USA depend of two forces: the impact of the increase in the proportion of the quota affecting the Colombian exports, and the effectof progressive decreases in the value of the total North-American quota.

Keywords: Sugar market; international trade; freetrade agreement; import quotas / Mercado del azúcar; comercio internacional; tratado de libre comercio; cuotas de importación. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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