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Factor Intensities and The Commodity Composition of U.S. Agricultural Trade

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  • Wills, Darryl
  • Lee, Chinkook
  • Schluter, Gerald

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This .· ~tudy examines the role that factor endowments play in determining us agricultural trade. Finding$ indicate that US agricultural exports are more land-intensive than US agricultural imports. Land-scarce nations tend to import land-intensive commodities from the US while nations with land endowments similar to that of the US import less land-intensive agricultural products .

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  • Wills, Darryl & Lee, Chinkook & Schluter, Gerald, 1989. "Factor Intensities and The Commodity Composition of U.S. Agricultural Trade," 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 270705, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270705
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