TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling preferential sugar imports of the EU: a spatial price equilibrium analysis
AU - Nolte, Stephan
AU - Grethe, Harald
AU - Buysse, Jeroen
AU - Van der Straeten, Bart
AU - Claeys, Dakerlia
AU - Lauwers, Ludwig
AU - Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - A spatial price equilibrium model with a large coverage of countries, policies and regional trade arrangements is applied to simulate preferential sugar imports of the European Union (EU) in 2015/16 under different assumptions with respect to the expansion of the sugar sectors of various least developed countries in order to benefit from unlimited EU market access. These are analysed under three different policy settings: a continuation of current policies, except for export refunds which are phased out by 2013, a continuation of current policies including export refunds and finally a World Trade Organisation agreement. Preferential imports are estimated to clearly exceed current estimates by the European Commission. In all scenarios, however, they are not found to threaten the reference price of the new Common Market Organisation.
AB - A spatial price equilibrium model with a large coverage of countries, policies and regional trade arrangements is applied to simulate preferential sugar imports of the European Union (EU) in 2015/16 under different assumptions with respect to the expansion of the sugar sectors of various least developed countries in order to benefit from unlimited EU market access. These are analysed under three different policy settings: a continuation of current policies, except for export refunds which are phased out by 2013, a continuation of current policies including export refunds and finally a World Trade Organisation agreement. Preferential imports are estimated to clearly exceed current estimates by the European Commission. In all scenarios, however, they are not found to threaten the reference price of the new Common Market Organisation.
U2 - 10.1093/erae/jbq011
DO - 10.1093/erae/jbq011
M3 - A1: Web of Science-article
VL - 37
SP - 165
EP - 186
JO - European Review of Agricultural Economics
JF - European Review of Agricultural Economics
SN - 0165-1587
IS - 2
ER -