Impacto das medidas de defesa da concorrência sobre o comércio internacional de produtos agrícolas

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of non-tariff contingency measures, that is, to defend competition, on trade in agricultural products among member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the period from 2000 to 2016. estimated a gravitational regression model to assess the impacts of antidumping measures (AD), countervailing measures (CV) and safeguard measures and special safeguards (SG+SSG) on imports between WTO countries participating in the trade of agricultural products. The results showed that antidumping measures have a negative and statistically significant impact, revealing that their imposition reduces trade between countries, possibly due to high transaction costs. In contrast, countervailing measures showed a positive and statistically significant sign, suggesting that their role in defending competition in trade has been reasonably fulfilled and greater competition results in a greater volume of trade. The safeguard measures variable, on the other hand, did not reveal a statistically significant impact on the model, which may be related to the inappropriate use of measures by countries, deviating from their main scope of being an effective and temporary protection network.