Factor Intensities and The Commodity Composition of U.S. Agricultural Trade

Darryl Wills, Chinkook Lee and Gerald Schluter

No 270705, 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This .· ~tudy examines the role that factor endowments play in determining us agricultural trade. Finding$ indicate that US agricultural exports are more land-intensive than US agricultural imports. Land-scarce nations tend to import land-intensive commodities from the US while nations with land endowments similar to that of the US import less land-intensive agricultural products .

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 1989-07-30
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270705

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