The Impact of Export Tax Policy on Cocoa Farmers and Supply Chain

Amzul Rifin

The International Trade Journal, 2015, vol. 29, issue 1, 39-62

Abstract: Since April 2010, the government of Indonesia has imposed an export tax on cocoa beans that aims to increase the availability of the cocoa beans for domestic processing companies at an affordable price. The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of the export tax on farmers and the supply chain. This study was conducted by a survey in North Luwu, South Sulawesi, which is the central production area of cocoa beans in Indonesia. The results show that, after the export tax was imposed, farmers maintained the same marketing channel, but margins decreased on the exporters' side.

Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/08853908.2014.941048 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
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: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:uitjxx:v:29:y:2015:i:1:p:39-62

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/uitj20

DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2014.941048

Access Statistics for this article

The International Trade Journal is currently edited by George R. G. Clarke

More articles in The International Trade Journal from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().