Cumulative Effects of Brexit and Other UK and EU27 Bilateral FTAs on the World's Wine Markets

Kym Anderson and Glyn Wittwer

No 2018-01, Wine Economics Research Centre Working Papers from University of Adelaide, Wine Economics Research Centre

Abstract: Since Britain accounts for a major share of the world's wine imports, and EU member countries include the world's major wine exporters, Brexit and subsequent UK and EU27 bilateral free-trade agreements (FTAs) have the potential to disrupt wine markets globally. We use a model of the world's national wine markets, projected to 2025, to examine potential impacts of Brexit and a series of follow-on bilateral FTAs. The scenarios assume a UK-EU27 FTA is followed by EU27 bilateral FTAs with Australia and New Zealand and then UK bilateral FTAs with those two plus South Africa and Chile (with whom the EU already has FTAs). The new EU-Japan FTA is also assessed. Brexit's impact comes more from assumed changes to the UK's income growth and the pound's exchange rate than to its tariffs. The bilateral trade consequences of the trade-diverting and trade-creating effects of each additional FTA are highlighted. They are then compared with the effects of a multilateral agreement to remove all wine import tariffs globally. Unrealistic though this is, it exposes the far bigger contributions to wine producers and consumers that could emerge from a single multilateral undertaking than from several bilateral or regional FTAs.

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: 22 pages
Date: 2018-01
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