The intensity of agri-food trade between the countries of the Mediterranean basin

Journal title ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE
Author/s Maria Crescimanno, Domenico Farruggia, Antonino Galati, Dario Siggia
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/1
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 13-35 File size 1824 KB
DOI 10.3280/ECAG2013-001002
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The Mediterranean has always been an area of strategic interest for the European Union (eu), which, since its establishment, has woven a compact network of relationships with its trading partners in the South and East of the Mediterranean, signing cooperation and then associative agreements with them. This study aims to present a view of how the agro-food trade network has evolved between the eu’s Mediterranean partner countries and their neighbors in North Africa and the Near East. To measure the extent of this trade specific indicators are used which are also widely used in economic literature, albeit to analyze trade in sectors unconnected to agro-food. In particular, analyses carried out by applying bilateral trade indices, according to Frankel and Rose (1997) and Traistaru (2004), showed, on the whole, a progressive weakening in the amount of agro-food trade in the period 1996-2010. An analysis of the intensity indices for bilateral trade between partners in the area helped to identify the main factors that regulate commercial relationships. These are especially historical and excolonial relationships, as in the case of France, or else connected with geographical proximity, which results in border trade. Conversely, the Association Agreements and the Stabilization and Association Agreement signed between the EU on the one hand and its Mediterranean partners on the other, have played a only a marginal role in almost all trade in food products, showing that there is no relationship between the positive trend in the amount of trade and the signing and operation of such agreements.

Keywords: Trade Intensity, Agro-food products, Mediterranean countries, Euro-Med Polic

Jel codes: Q170, F140

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