Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Agricultural globalization, trade, and the environment

Editor list: Moss, CB; Rausser, G; Schmitz, A; Taylor, TG; Zilbermann, D

Publication year: 2002

Pages: 153-177

ISBN: 978-1-4613-5606-6

eISBN: 978-1-4615-1543-2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1543-2_8

Title of series: Natural resource management and policy

Number in series: 20

Abstract: 

The European Common Market Organization for bananas (CMOB) is currently the most controversial tariff-rate quota (TRQ) policy among the increasing number of TRQs in international agricultural trade. The CMOB was introduced under the pressure of the Single European Act in July 1993. It has affected various countries of the European Union (E.U.) differently, as the previous national banana policies of the member countries implied differential levels of protection. The new policy regime, with a tariff quota as its major feature, has lowered the level of agricultural protection in formerly more protected countries (such as France). But a new trade barrier was introduced for countries that had more liberalized banana-trade policies before 1993. In particular, Germany has experienced higher prices due to the new policy. It is mainly these new barriers which have been discussed in public and criticized for being another policy-induced distortion in the international banana trade (Borrell, 1997).

Harvard Citation style: Herrmann, R. and Sexton, R. (2002) Market Conduct and Its Importance for Trade Policy Analysis: The European Banana Case, in Moss, C., Rausser, G., Schmitz, A., Taylor, T. and Zilbermann, D. (eds.) Agricultural globalization, trade, and the environment. Boston: Springer, pp. 153-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1543-2_8

APA Citation style: Herrmann, R., & Sexton, R. (2002). Market Conduct and Its Importance for Trade Policy Analysis: The European Banana Case. In Moss, C., Rausser, G., Schmitz, A., Taylor, T., & Zilbermann, D. (Eds.), Agricultural globalization, trade, and the environment (pp. 153-177). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1543-2_8