Trade Liberalisation, Changing Forest Management and Roundwood Trade in Europe

Abstract

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Tariff and US Paper Products Trade

“…Most studies that use the gravity model are based on aggregated trade flows although studies using disaggregated, industry-level trade data are increasing. As for forest products trade, Kangas (2001) uses the gravity model to study the development of round wood trade in Europe, and Kangas and Niskanen (2003) use it to investigate the trading patterns of forest products between European Union countries and Central and Eastern European countries. Kang (2003) uses it to investigate U.S. wood products trade, while Li and Zhang (2008) and Zhang and Li (2008) analyze factors affecting China's wood products and paper products trade, respectively.…”