Effects of tariff liberalization on the global forest sector: application of the GTAP model

Liu, Chien-Ku; Kuo, Nai-Fong; Hseu, Jiing-Shyang

doi:10.1505/ifor.2005.7.3.218

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“…The chapter attempts to verify the findings of previous studies (Gan & Ganguli, 2003;Liu et al, 2005;Sedjo & Simpson, 1999). These studies suggest that further reductions in tariffs on forest products are likely to generate only very modest increases in worldwide trade and production.…”

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“…The regions are selected and grouped to identify the main players in forestry trade. Regions like Russian Federation and Sub-Saharan Africa are included in contrast to Liu et al (2005) to highlight the relative importance and contribution of these countries. There are five factors of production: land, unskilled labour, skilled labour, capital and natural resources, where labour and capital are assumed mobile.…”

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Global Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management

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2012

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Preface that in a situation of commercial dependency, some contractors use their power over the SME to interfere in the management of their business, thereby curtailing their decisional autonomy. It is concluded that, businesses which find themselves in a situation where they have to obey the orders of a contractor may have limited resources to innovate or develop new and promising niche markets.Chapter five highlights the perspective on membership and ownership in a private forest owner cooperative in a Swedish private forest owner cooperative. It looks at the mismatch between goal of the cooperative and that of the members, to illustrate how the members, the inspectors and the managers look upon the private forest owner in terms of identity, benefits, and agreement. It is suggested that improvements can be achieved by applying a new institutional way of organization, which will make it easier to create a meaningful communication. Chapter six evaluates the economic feasibility of an eucalyptus agroforestry system in Brazil. It is noted that in decision making between projects which have different time horizons, the Equivalent Periodic Benefits (BPE) method has priority over the Net Present Value (VPL). Since each different age of eucalyptus represents an alternative project with different planning horizons, the alternative with a greater BPE must be chosen.Chapter seven analyses the effects of a unilateral tariff liberalisation on forestry products in Australia, amongst the leading exporters and importers of forest products, in particular, as well as global merchandise, in general. The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and its database, version 7 with 2004 data are utilized. Given that forest products only comprise a small proportion of world merchandise trade, it is expected that trade liberalisation would cause small changes in terms of trade, real GDP, production, consumption and prices of forest products in most countries. Chapter eight is dedicated to strategic cost management practices adopted by segments of Brazilian agribusiness. It focus on investigating the use, perceived benefits and difficulties in implementation by agribusiness companies of strategic cost management practices, treated in the literature as the most appropriate ones to help managers in the management process of organizations. The findings of this exploratory study provide the foundation for conducting further research in the form of multiple case studies and cross-case analyses.Chapter nine is about forestry and life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA helps in measuring environmental aspects and potential impacts of a product through its entire life-cycle from raw material acquisition (beginning of the life-cycle) to manufacturing, use, recycling, re-use and final disposal (end of the product's life-cycle). Though LCA is particularly difficult in forestry due to the long rotation period, it remains a good tool especially today when there is increased awareness of environmentally friendly technologies, renewable energy and eco-effici...

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Global Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management

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2012

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“…The regions are selected and grouped to identify the main players in forestry trade. Regions like Russian Federation and SubSaharan Africa are included in contrast to Liu et al (2005) to highlight the relative importance and contribution of these countries. There are five factors of production: land, unskilled labour, skilled labour, capital and natural resources, where labour and capital are assumed mobile.…”

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“…Partial equilibrium models have been used in the past to analyse the effects of tariff reductions in the forest sector (Liu et al, 2005). These models cannot generally include the interactions of different sectors in the economy with the forestry sector.…”

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Effects of a Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation on Forestry Products and Trade in Australia: An Economic Analysis Using the GTAP Model

Stenberg¹,

Siriwardana²

2012

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Measuring the economic impacts of trade liberalisation on forest products trade in the Asia-Pacific region using the GTAP model

Stenberg

Siriwardana

2015

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This chapter describes how we obtained the initial estimates for the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) behavioral parameters file. These include the source substitution or Armington elasticities, the factor substitution elasticities, the factor transformation elasticities, the investment parameters, and the consumer demand elasticities. Table 14.1 summarizes for these parameters: the associated notation, the set over which they are indexed, and their description. In this chapter we explain the role of each parameter in the GTAP Model, and describe how we obtained the current settings.Most of the parameters treated here enter directly into the GTAP Data Base. In contrast with the rest of the data file where an extensive and elaborate process of transformation is required to remove any inconsistencies, and repair the omissions in the initial data sets, no such processing is required here for most of the behavioral parameters. For the most part, each individual parameter is an independent datum, which stands or falls on its own, and does not require any consistency checks with other parameters. The one exception to this rule is the consumer demand parameters (see section 14.5). Here we do need to check for consistency conditions -the triad of Engel aggregation, Cournot aggregation and symmetry condition. Also, there is a need to transform the data, from elasticities, for which we find empirical estimates, to the invariant parameters needed for our preferred functional form for the consumer demand system. Elasticities and parameters described in sections 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 and 14.4 have not been changed since the release of GTAP 6 Data Base, while the consumer demand parameters have been updated in this version. Source Substitution ElasticitiesThe GTAP Data Base contains two sets of source substitution elasticities. One relates to the substitution between domestic products and imports, and the other to the substitution between imports from different regions. To define these parameters precisely, we need to refer to the theoretical structure of the GTAP Model. In that model, the source substitution elasticities are defined separately for each of the representative agents within each region rather than referring to a single economy-wide demand behavior, as in the other models. This means that for each commodity within each region, the domestic-import mix is determined separately for each industry, and for each of the final demand categories, namely investment, household consumption, and government consumption. The sourcing of imports is also determined separately for intermediate usage (for all industries together) and for each of the final demand category. Finally, for cross-regional behavior, the GTAP Model assumes that for each commodity, all agents in all regions display the same substitution elasticity.

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Effects of tariff liberalization on the global forest sector: application of the GTAP model

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Global Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management

Global Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management

Effects of a Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation on Forestry Products and Trade in Australia: An Economic Analysis Using the GTAP Model

Measuring the economic impacts of trade liberalisation on forest products trade in the Asia-Pacific region using the GTAP model

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