rapid economic and steady high rates of economic growth has drastically increased the need for imported oil in asia-pacific region; china -an oil exporting country in the region till 1993- is now the third oil importer of the world with the neighboring japan being in the second place. south korea as the world’s ninth oil importer consumes almost as much as the entire oil production of oil expor...

Cano1a (Brassica napus L.) is an important oil crop, ranking third only to soybean and palm oil in global production. It is a member of the family Brassicacea (syn. Cruciferae). It is a winter or spring crop and is amenable to growth in cooler climates. Once considered a specialty crop for Canada, it is now a global crop. Many other countries including the USA, Australia and those in Europe als...

We investigate the welfare and trade impacts of U.S. retaliatory tariffs from Airbus WTO dispute on EU olive oil, using a calibrated multi-market partial-equilibrium displacement model. The model accounts for four differentiated types retail oil in market. retailer-blenders source eight foreign markets domestically two qualities (virgin, other), shipping container (non-bulk, bulk). consider mai...

this paper analyzes the effects ofexchange policies on iran,s foreign trade, by applying new econometric techniques. in assessing the impacts of depreciation of the national currency on macroeconomic variable, the real rather than nominal exchange rate has been determined to be more appropriate criterion to demonstrate the success or failure ofthe adopted policies. during the period under the s...