Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: AFM Mohiuddin
Author-Name-First: AFM
Author-Name-Last: Mohiuddin
Author-Workplace-Name: International University of Japan
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/
Author-Name: Ryuta Ray Kato
Author-Name-First: Ryuta
Author-Name-Last: Kato
Author-Email: kato@iuj.ac.jp
Author-Workplace-Name: International University of Japan
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/
Title: Trade Liberalization of the Fishery Industry of Japan
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the reduction of an import tariff on the Japanese fishery industry by using a computable general equilibrium model. Being against our common knowledge, our simulations with very realistic conditions show that both of the domestic consumers and the domestic fishery industry can gain by the subsidy (a negative tariff rate) policy, and also that income of the fishery industry would increase by trade liberalization when all possible linkages of economic activities are taken into account within a general equilibrium framework. Our results suggest a possible situation that there is no political conflict between the domestic fishery industry and the domestic consumer.
Classification-JEL: C68, F17, H20, Q17
Length: 40 pages
Creation-Date: 2009-05
Number: EMS_2009_10
File-URL: https://www.iuj.ac.jp/workingpapers/index.cfm?File=EMS_2009_10.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2009
File-Size: 387KB
Keywords: Fishery Industry, Japan, Trade Liberalization, Import Tariff, Computable General Equilibrium Model, Simulation
Handle: RePEc:iuj:wpaper:EMS_2009_10