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Developing states selling more food items to each other
During the last 30 years developing countries have been selling increasing quantities of their agricultural exports to other developing countries.
From 1960 to 1989, "intratrade" in agricultural products between developing countries grew at ■ rate of about 7.3 per cent a year, while the developing world's exports to industrial countries increased by six per cent an nually. says a new report by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington. DC.
Developing countries increased the share of their total agricultural exports going to other developing countries from 17 per cent in the period 1966-68 to 26 per cent in the period 1987-89, says the report entitled "Agricultural Trade Between Developing Countries: Patterns and Future Possibilities."
Developing country markets are expected’to "continue to gain importance in the future, due partly to higher rates of
income and population growth . and partly due to high Income elasticity of demand for both food and non food agri cultural commodities,' says the report by Nurul Islam, a senior policy adviser at IFPRI
Most developing world intratrade is still within the ma jor regions — Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In 1987-89 almost 87 per cent of Latin America's intratrade Imports originated in that region In South and Southeast Asia, in traregional trade was 85 per cent of total Intratrade. the report says.
However. In recent years, the report adds, the overwhelming dominance of in-trareglonal trade has started to diminish, and interregional trade Increased from 27 to 30 per cent of total Intratrade between 1966-68 and 1987 89."
The growing importance of interregional trade is due partly to the diversification of demand in high income d«-vcloping countries and partly
to a reduction in long-distance transport costs and Increased communications between far-flung regions," says the report
If growth rates In develop tng countries accelerate at five per. cent per year, the report says, intratrade In agricultural products could increase by about 71 per cent by the year 2001. High export growth rates arc predicted for meats, fruits, vegetables, sugar, oilseeds, fats and oils. The report cautions that the Indus trial countries will remain ma jor markets, even If developing world growth moves ahead as predicted. "Even by 2001. the major markets for raw maleri als. tropical beverages and tobacco, sugar, and fruits and vegetables will be In developed countries."
The expansion of Intra trade, the report says. Is slowed by a number of Inslitu ttonal and policy measures, some of which undoubtedly In hlbit externa) trade in general "High freight costs, limited transportation and communi
cation facilities linking developing countries, scarcity of , trade finance, and Inadequate market Intelligence and litade Information are among the important barriers."
Another problem is trade barriers between the developing countries, the report says. It calls for the developing countries to work lo simultaneously reduce their tariff barriers between each other, then later with the rest of the world. This kind of across-lhc-board liberalization "has the potential lo yield higher net economic benefits If such an arrangement is a stage in a process toward — not a subst! -lute for — liberalization on a global basis "
lndusiii.il countries. Ihe ar tide adds. ■ m assist ihe ex pa ns Ion ol inli.ii-.«lc in devcl oping countries by -h linking food and non food aid from their own export promotion efforts.
— Washington Economic Reports