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Export Taxes In Argentina: A Case Study

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dc.contributor.authorKnight, Russell Henryen
dc.contributor.committeechairGeyer, L. Leonen
dc.contributor.committeememberPurcell, Wayne D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFisher, Ericen
dc.contributor.departmentAgricultural and Applied Economicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:57:42Zen
dc.date.adate2005-08-05en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:57:42Zen
dc.date.issued2005-04-29en
dc.date.rdate2005-08-05en
dc.date.sdate2005-05-23en
dc.description.abstractWith the recent agreement on a framework in the Doha Round for the WTO, trade liberalization is taking another step forward. Unfortunately, export taxes get overlooked as only five countries have this protectionist/rent seeking policy: Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine (USDA FAS, 2004). However, the impact of these policies can be felt all over the world. The focus of the case study is on the differential export taxes (DET) placed on soybeans by the Government of Argentina and analyzing the impact of government intervention on trade. Argentina is the third-largest producer of soybeans, and the worldâ s largest exporter of soybean oil and meal with domestic consumption totaling less than five percent of the meal and oil that is processed. In Argentina there is a constant export tax level of twenty percent that is applied to all commodities in agriculture but in the case of oilseeds, raw soybeans are taxed 3.5% more than all other grains and oilseed products. This differential tax favors the exports of valued-added products, i.e. soybean oil and meal. Previous attempts to eliminate the DET have failed. FEDIOL, the Federation that represents the vegetable oils and fats industry in the European Union, filed a complaint against Argentina in the late 1970s and again in the early 1980s, but failed because the DET was not listed as a subsidy under the GATT.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05232005-111437en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232005-111437/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/37121en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartTableofContents.pdfen
dc.relation.haspartTitlePage.pdfen
dc.relation.haspartMainBody.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectArgentinaen
dc.subjectsoybeansen
dc.subjecteffective rate of protectionen
dc.subjectexport taxesen
dc.subjecttrade policyen
dc.subjectcrush marginen
dc.titleExport Taxes In Argentina: A Case Studyen
dc.typeMajor paperen
thesis.degree.disciplineAgricultural and Applied Economicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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