European Community's Horticultural Trade: Implications of EC Enlargement

摘要

The European Community (EC) will likely import $269 million of oranges, grapes, raisins, almonds, canned peaches, and processed tomatoes from the United States in 1986, a 12-percent increase from the $238.6 million average in 1978-80. The EC's elimination of tariff and nontariff barriers on imports from Greece, Spain, and Portugal will cut imports from the United States by $4.5 million; however, increased demand stimulated by income growth will boost imports nearly $35 million. Changes in EC policy will likely affect trade patterns more than will elimination of tariff and nontariff barriers.