Impacts of a liberalization in the USA market for Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice: why Florida's producers are so afraid?

• Autor(a) principal: Fracalanza,Paulo Sérgio
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Ferreira,Adriana Nunes, Neves,Marcos Fava
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20032007000400003
• topic: Commercial liberalization; reduction of trade barriers; partial equilibrium models; frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ)

This study aims at examining the resource allocation and welfare implications of the reduction of barriers in the United States market for Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) imported from Brazil. The present paper is organized as follows: section 2 presents an overview of the main features of the market and current trade regime for orange juice, as well as the possible impacts of liberalization within FTAA and with the European Union; section 3 describes the partial equilibrium model of imperfect substitute goods used to estimate the impact of trade liberalization in the United States, on prices and quantities and on welfare; in section 4 two possible scenarios for liberalization are designed using the large country model. The last section summarizes the main conclusions.