Date: 2018
Type: Working Paper
'Indonesia – Import licensing regimes' : GATT rules for agricultural trade?
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2018/56, Global Governance Programme-319, [Global Economics]
AHN, Dukgeun, GNUTZMANN-MKRTCHYAN, Arevik, 'Indonesia – Import licensing regimes' : GATT rules for agricultural trade?, EUI RSCAS, 2018/56, Global Governance Programme-319, [Global Economics] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59869
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This paper examines two disputes brought by the United States and New Zealand in response to a series of import sanctions for agricultural products imposed by the Indonesian government to promote food self-sufficiency. We document the heterogeneous effect the sanctioning measures had on Indonesia’s partners. We argue that Indonesia’s import licensing regimes acted as high, sometimes prohibitive, fixed cost of exporting. Frequent changes of regulation provided additional challenges and increased costs of exporting. These properties determined the differential impacts of Indonesia’s measures where some sustained significant market losses while other large exporters, in particular Australia, following a short decline strengthened market position and export levels.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59869
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2018/56; Global Governance Programme-319; [Global Economics]
Other topic(s): Trade, investment and international cooperation