A Gravity Approach to Assess the Effects of Association Agreements on Euromediterranean Trade of Fruits and Vegetables

Jose Maria Garcia-Alvarez-Coque and Maria-Luis Martí-Selva
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jose-Maria Garcia Alvarez-Coque

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Abstract: The paper is intended to draw on a gravity methodology to assess the impact of EuroMediterranean Association Agreement on Fruit and Vegetable trade from Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) to the EU. The Association Agreements appear to be significant as an explanatory of both fruit and vegetables’ trade flows to the EU. However, while the impact of such arrangements has contributed to boost MPC’s horticultural exports, it has not been sufficient to compensate the export loss related to the nature of MPCs as third countries. MPCs may have obtained gains from the EuroMed Agrements but the Barcelona process is still far to achieve its initial goals, at least concerning crucial products for the MPCs’ export strategy. The presented approach supplies a method to monitor future developments in the EuroMediterranean process.

Keywords: agricultural trade; Euro-Mediterranean agreements; fruit and vegetables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-eec and nep-int
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