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The impact of environmental policies on agricultural trade
Author(s) -
Diakosavvas Dimitris
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3380060205
Subject(s) - protectionism , agriculture , economics , international trade , comparative advantage , environmental policy , commercial policy , natural resource economics , international economics , empirical evidence , trade barrier , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
In recent years much prominence has been given to environmental issues and to the interrelationships between environmental and economic policies. At the same time, concern has also been expressed over the potential tradeoffs between environmental policies and trade policies in so far as the former can be used as protectionist devices. The paper presents some empirical evidence of the impact of environmental policies on agricultural trade for 10 agricultural commodities. It is concluded that trade for the most polluting commodities has been altered from what is predicted by the Heckscher‐Ohlin (H‐O) theorem of comparative advantage.