TRADE PREFERENCES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Thom Achterbosch, S. de Bruin and Frank van Tongeren

No 29102, Report Series from Wageningen University and Research Center, Agricultural Economics Research Institute

Abstract: This report draws on a body of existing literature to assess the impact of trade preferences granted by the European Union on trade and welfare in developing countries. It is argued that the Everything But Arms amendment to the EU preference scheme will have limited effect on export potential and welfare in the least developed countries (LDCs). The EU would do well to simplify compliance with their rules of origin. When LDCs are granted deeper preferences under continued domestic agricultural policies in the EU, US, Canada and Japan, resources in LDCs will move towards the agricultural sector. The expected effect impact on LDCs of extending preferences to non-LDCs is quite small, while the negative effect of reductions of MFN tariffs under trade liberalisation is stronger.

Keywords: International; Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53
Date: 2003
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/29102/files/rr030611.pdf (application/pdf)

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:ags:aerirs:29102

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.29102

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Report Series from Wageningen University and Research Center, Agricultural Economics Research Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().