The US military, intelligence, and diplomatic communities have overlooked a key vulnerability in their assessment of military conflict between China Taiwan—Taiwan’s growing reliance on agricultural imports its food stocks (except for rice) that could endure trade disruptions only six months. This article assesses Taiwan’s sector ability to feed the country’s population if production are disrupt...

One of the most striking aspects of the recent recession is the collapse in international trade. This paper uses disaggregated data on U.S. imports and exports to shed light on the anatomy of this collapse. The paper finds that the recent reduction in trade relative to overall economic activity is far larger than in previous downturns. Information on quantities and prices of both domestic absor...

An economic optimization model of waterborne containerized imports from Asia to the USA is described. Imports are allocated to alternative ports and logistics channels so as to minimize total transportation and inventory costs for each importer. Logistics channels include direct shipment of marine containers via truck or rail, and trans-loading in the hinterlands of the ports of entry from mari...

  P redicting the amount of country imports toward assessing trade balance and its effect on the balance of payments (BOP) and finally money supply, general level of prices and the rate of economic growth is of paramount importance. Therefore, economic policymakers seriously need a model which cannot only predict the volume of imports well but also be capable of re...

Abstract Haiti is a unique rice market in the sense that, despite high poverty rates and dependency on as staple, it relies imports (80% of total consumption) high-quality milled for which pays premium price. requires that all imported have maximum 4% broken kernels, results importing one most expensive non-fragrant long grain world. This study implements non-hypothetical field experiment (300 ...

PART III of this volume discusses complementary strategies toward the rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including mechanization, irrigation, and marketing efforts to enhance demand for domestic rice. In Asia, population pressure on land high prices relative input induced farming intensification, while mechanization irrigation development boosted productivity. However, SSA, incr...

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, against the background of an existing empirical literature on the duration of trade which has found that international trade is often of strikingly short duration, we aim to establish whether or not EU imports from the rest of the world also are short-lived. Second, since there is at this point no clear commonly accepted theoretical explanation for...

Food products account for a significant amount of the Iranian imports. Despite the rising prices of food products over the last two decades, their imports have been increasing too. In this study import demand of the main imported food products is empirically analyzed using Quadratic AIDS. Welfare impacts are measured using compensated variation. The results indicate that all products, except te...