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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on the Development of the Pork Industry in Taiwan The usually recognized significant domestic and foreignCompetitive and vantage of the pork industry in Taiwan may havebeen supported by the autarkic domestic market. It is realized thatthe liberalization of agricultural trade will be an inevitable trendunder the WTO negotiations. For pork industry, the released pork belly import quota may become the first-stage liberalized target.Combined with the prevailed mouse disease islandwide in march of1997, the development of the pork industry may need to reevaluated Based on the assumptions of continuing pork exports and open import quota for pork belly, the CMS equation is used to calculated possible changes of the competitive ability for Taiwan''s porkindustry. As a result, the competitive advantage of Taiwan''s porkindustry is unstable, but is better if Japan reduces imports. Theimport quota of pork belly will be detrimental to the competitivenessseriously even maintaining export competitiveness.
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