Border Barriers in Agricultural Trade and the Impact of their Elimination: Evidence from East Asia

Kazunobu Hayakawa and Chang Kuo-I

No 160, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: Abstract: By means of a GTAP based-CGE model, we investigate the impact of the elimination of import tariffs and non-tariff policy barriers (NTPBs) on agricultural trade towards East Asian FTAs. To do that, we first measure the NTPBs by employing a widely-used method derived from the literature on border effects. Next, by adding into the GTAP database our estimates on the NTPBs, which the original GTAP database by its nature does not succeed in incorporating, we compute the impact of the entire elimination of policy barriers (the complete reduction of import tariffs and of NTPBs) on GDP.

Keywords: Border barrier; Agricultural trade; GTAP; East Asia; 農産物貿易; 東アジア; 国境障壁 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06-01
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Published in IDE Discussion Paper = IDE Discussion Paper, No. 160. 2008-06-01

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