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GTAP Resource #5647

"A Foresight Study of European East-West Agrifood Trade Options"
by Philippidis, George, Siemen van Berkum, Ana Isabel Sanjuan Lopez, Andrzej Tabeau and Monika Verma


Abstract
Taking a trade perspective with a focus on agrifood markets, the current foresight study employs a computable general equilibrium simulation model to quantify the implications of different future pathways of European East-West trade relations for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), thereby providing insight on how best to orientate their political and trade strategies. Comparing with a baseline, two optimistic pathways explore greater market access, both within Europe ('Deep integration') and globally ('trade liberalisation'). In contrast, an isolationist 'trade bloc' pathway reflecting a deteriorating political situation between Russia and the West is also examined.
In the ‘baseline’, Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) members realise market gains, whilst intra-CIS trade diversion effects are small. The 'deep integration' scenario ('liberalisation' scenario) generates significant relative benefits for DCFTA signatories’ agrifood (non-agrifood) activities. In both of these trade reform narratives, the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) economic gains are biased in favour of Russia’s energy sector resulting in greater import dependence on agrifood commodities from the EU. The isolationist trade narrative nurtures EAEU agrifood activity, although at the cost of its macroeconomic growth.


Resource Details (Export Citation) GTAP Keywords
Category: GTAP Application
Status: Published
By/In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics
Date: 2018
Version: Forthcoming
Created: Philippidis, G. (4/24/2018)
Updated: Philippidis, G. (4/24/2018)
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- Baseline development
- Agricultural policies
- Domestic policy analysis
- Non-Tariff barriers
- Preferential trading arrangements
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- European Union


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