UK and global wine markets by 2025, and implications of Brexit

Kym Anderson and Glyn Wittwer

No 2017-02, Wine Economics Research Centre Working Papers from University of Adelaide, Wine Economics Research Centre

Abstract: The UK has accounted for a major share of the world's wine imports for centuries, and wine accounts for more than one-third of UK alcohol consumption. It is therefore not surprising that both suppliers of those imports and UK wine consumers, producers, traders, distributors, and retailers are focusing on what the UK's planned withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit) might mean for them. In this paper a model of the world's wine markets is used to project those markets to 2025 without, and then with, Brexit. The Brexit scenarios involve adjustment not just to UK and EU27 bilateral tariffs but also to assumed changes to the UK's income growth and currency. The relative importance of each of those three components of the initial shock are reported, as are impacts on bilateral wine trade values and volumes for still and sparkling wines. The results suggest the impact outside the UK will be minor compared with other developments in the world's wine markets. Inside the UK, however, the effect of Brexit on incomes and the pound are likely to have non-trivial initial impacts on the domestic wine market, and to be far larger than the direct impact of changes in bilateral tariffs.

Keywords: Brexit; global wine market modeling; preferential trading agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2017-07
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Chapter: U.K. and Global Wine Markets by 2025, and Implications of Brexit (2019)
Journal Article: U.K. and Global Wine Markets by 2025, and Implications of Brexit* (2017)
Working Paper: UK and global wine markets by 2025, and implications of Brexit (2017)
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