IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/iaaeo6/197895.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Domestic Policy Interdependence: Analysis of Dairy Policies in the USA and EC

Author

Listed:
  • Marchant, Mary A.
  • Neff, Steven A.
  • McCalla, Alex F.

Abstract

This paper compares domestic dairy policies in the USA and EC and examines the impact of these policies on each dairy industry to explore domestic policy interdependence. The EC and USA have similar goals ofimproving farm income and use similar price support policies to achieve these goals. These policies have encouraged overproduction, generated surpluses and government stocks, and resulted in large government expenditures. Both have followed a mixed surplus disposal strategy with one key differencethe EC has used export subsidies to dispose of part of its surplus on the world market. In the mid-1980s, both the USA and EC took strong action to confront these problems. The EC's use of marketing quotas and commitment to reducing its stockpiles ultimately affected the world market as its exports fell in 1989. As a result, US stocks virtually disappeared, US prices increased substantially, and US surplus disposal programmes ended. By recognizing the policy linkage of EC domestic policy through the international market on us stockpiles, policy makers can choose policy instruments more precisely.

Suggested Citation

  • Marchant, Mary A. & Neff, Steven A. & McCalla, Alex F., 1992. "Domestic Policy Interdependence: Analysis of Dairy Policies in the USA and EC," 1992 Occasional Paper Series No. 6 197895, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaaeo6:197895
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.197895
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197895/files/agecon-occpapers-1992-045_1_.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.197895?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Marchant, Mary A. & Neff, Steven A. & Xiao, Mei, 1997. "Political Economy of United States and European Union Dairy Policy Choice," 1997 Occasional Paper Series No. 7 198045, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:iaaeo6:197895. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iaaeeea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.