Would African Countries Benefit from the Termination of Kenya's Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU? An Analysis of EU Demand for Imported Roses
This paper assesses the impact of Kenya's preferential status on EU demand for imported roses by country. Import demand equations were estimated using a production version of the Rotterdam model in an Armington framework. With the expiration of the Lomé Convention, tariffs (up to 24%) on Kenyan roses were likely if an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was not signed by January 2008. Roses from African countries not subject to tariffs were expected to displace Kenya's exports in the future. However, results of this study showed that roses from African countries were complements in the EU market and those exports from Zimbabwe and Other African countries would have been negatively impacted if a Kenya-EU EPA was unsuccessful. Given the maximum import duty on Kenyan roses, EU imports from Kenya would decrease by 9.1% and imports from Zimbabwe and Other African countries would decrease by 6% and 4%, respectively. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 The Agricultural Economics Society.
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2009
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Authors: | Muhammad, Andrew |
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Journal of Agricultural Economics. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0021-857X. - Vol. 60.2009, 1, p. 220-238
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Wiley Blackwell |
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