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PROFILES OF TARIFFS IN GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
High protection for agricultural commodities in the form of tariffs continues to be the major factor restricting world trade. The large differences in average tariffs across countries make it possible for farmers in one country to benefit from tariff protection while farmers in other countries lose income because of lower prices resulting from those tariffs. This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of agricultural tariffs and tariff-rate quotas (limits on imported goods) across a large number of countries and commodities and finds that high average tariffs create barriers to markets for U.S. and other farmers.market access, megatariffs, tariff profiles, over-quota tariffs, in-quota tariffs, tariff-rate quotas, World Trade Organization, International Relations/Trade,
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The International Coffee Agreement: a Tax on Coffee Producers and Consumers?
The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) used export quotas to restrict coffee trade in order to
increase and stabilize the international price. A model of domestic pricing policy is developed
which shows that the producer price should have fallen in response to ICA quotas. Econometric
analysis supports the hypothesis that use of quotas resulted in lower producer prices in most coffee
producing countries. The income lost by producers was largely captured by governments and/or
exporters to whom the governments assigned quota rights. Since coffee is produced by small
farmers in most exporting countries, income distribution within those countries probably worsened