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Potential impact of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the global forest sector

Joseph Buongiorno, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, USA, jbuongio@wisc.edu , Paul Rougieux, Observatory for European Forests, European Forest Institute, France, Ahmed Barkaoui, Forest Economics Laboratory, INRA, France, Shushuai Zhu, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, USA, Patrice Harou, Observatory for European Forests, European Forest Institute, France
 
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Joseph Buongiorno, Paul Rougieux, Ahmed Barkaoui, Shushuai Zhu and Patrice Harou (2014), "Potential impact of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the global forest sector", Journal of Forest Economics: Vol. 20: No. 3, pp 252-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfe.2014.07.001

Publication Date: 0/8/2014
© 0 2014 Joseph Buongiorno, Paul Rougieux, Ahmed Barkaoui, Shushuai Zhu, Patrice Harou
 
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JEL Codes:, C51, C61, F17, L73, O19, A23, Q41
Forest sector, International trade, GFPM, Wood products, Demand, Supply, Prices
 

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The effects of a transatlantic trade agreement on the global forest sector were assessed with the Global Forest Products Model, conditional on previous macroeconomic impacts predicted with a general equilibrium model. Comprehensive tariff elimination per se had little effect on the forest sector. However, with deeper reforms and integration consumption would increase twice as much in percent in the US as in the EU. Net trade decreased in the US more than in the EU while it increased in Asia. Consumers and producers’ welfare increased by $7000 million in the EU and $14,000 million in the US, but decreased in some third countries, especially in Asia.

DOI:10.1016/j.jfe.2014.07.001