With the increasingly active global economic and trade activities, some international issues are gradually emerging. At same time, countries led by United States vigorously promote unilateral trade, which has to emergence of traditional protectionism. Some developed countries, citing protection their own set high standards thresholds for imported products, Furthermore, green barriers have emerg...

In this article, the reasonswhydeveloping countries trade fewer agricultural products than developed countries are analyzed. Based on earlier findings that low trade volume in the agricultural sector is due to high trade costs, the focus is on evaluating the extent to which bilateral trade costs in the agricultural sector differ among trading partners. Using a neo-Ricardian trade model, the res...

Sub Saharan African agriculture is currently facing challenges in international trade with respect to external market access conditions and competition in world markets as a result of trade liberalization efforts under the world trade organization (WTO) agreements and in particular the agreement on agriculture (AoA). This paper presents the performance of agricultural exports for selected count...