Impacts of the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement - the Apple Case
| dc.creator | Fu, Shengfei | |
| dc.creator | Epperson, James E. | |
| dc.creator | Ames, Glenn C.W. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:06:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T05:54:35Z | |
| dc.description | The U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) levels the playing field of trade between the United States and the six CAFTA-DR partner countries. Half of U.S. farm products gain immediate tariff-free access to the markets of the CAFTA-DR region. All Tariffs will be eliminated in 20 years. Under CAFTA-DR, tariffs on an important U.S. fresh fruit export to the region, fresh apples, declined from an initial base of 15%-25% in CAFTA-DR countries to zero immediately upon enforcement. The specific objective of this research is to analyze the impact of tariff elimination under CAFTA-DR on the trade of U.S. fresh apples. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is used for the analysis involving an excess-supply-excess-demand model with monthly trade data from January 2000 to December 2010. The more telling empirical results indicate that for each of the six CAFTA-DR countries, tariff elimination positively promotes U.S. apple exports to this region. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.119782 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/119782/files/Impacts%20of%20the%20U.S.%20-%20Central%20America%20-%20Dominican%20Republic%20Free%20Trade%20Agreement%20_CAFTA-DR_%20on%20U.S.%20Fruit%20Exports%20_%20the%20Apple%20Case.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/119782 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/569899 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/119782 | |
| dc.title | Impacts of the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement - the Apple Case | |
| dc.type | Text |