Abstract Asian countries consume approximately 90% of the world’s rice supply. Between 2007 and 2014, Thailand, Vietnam, India accounted for 60% exports rice. A nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) econometric model is utilized to estimate impact exchange rate fluctuations on trade in Southeast Asia. Focusing largest importing exporting country by volume, analysis considers Malaysia...

In 2019–2020, Bangladesh imported 5.2 million metric tonnes of petroleum products, worth 2.5 billion USD, and 50% the imports were consumed by transportation sector. Having limited natural oil reserves being heavily dependent on imports, country is vulnerable to shocks in international market, which can jeopardize its consistent economic growth. The Government announced a 5% blending bioethanol...

Trade liberalization in the early 1990s in Bangladesh has enabled the private sector to respond with market-stabilizing inflows of rice and wheat following major production shortfalls. At the same time, easing of restrictions on foreign investment, combined with substantial depreciation of the Taka, have enabled exports of the labor-intensive readymade garment industry to expand significantly. ...

Quality improvement of domestic milled rice is an urgent issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) because cannot compete with imports the growing urban market. Past studies considered poor milling facilities to be a major factor leading inferior quality rice. However, even modern recently established SSA, not yet necessarily competitive imports. Thus, finding ways improve paddy remains important quest...

Presented simple extensions to scala language related to import statements: exported imports, which provide ability to reuse sequence of import clauses in composable form and default rewriters, which provide mechanism for pluggable macro-based AST transformation of overall compilation unit, activated by import of library object. Using these facilities not only allows more compact code, it preve...

Japan’s oilseed sector is divided into two main components: 1) a large oilseed-crushing industry that produces vegetable oil and oilseed meal, and 2) industries using oilseeds for food, without crushing them for oil. In general, the oilseed-crushing industry is protected by tariffs on vegetable oil at the border, but receives no domestic subsidies. Oilseed production for food, in contrast, gene...

As U.S. lamb imports increased relative to domestic production, and the relative share of chilled to frozen lamb imports increased, importers of chilled lamb have become less responsive to domestic and import prices, while the direct opposite is the case for frozen lamb imports. From 1990 to 2003, chilled lamb imports from Australia and New Zealand became less and less responsive to U.S. prices...