THE DERIVED DEMAND FOR IMPORTED WHEAT IN

The goal of this paper is to provide the U.S. wheat industry with empirical estimates of the sensitivity of Ghana’s derived demand for wheat differentiated by country of origin. Divisia index elasticities for the U.S. and the rest of the world (ROW) are 0.500 and 1.686 respectively, indicating that as total imports increase, imports from the ROW should increase by the larger percent. Own-price elasticities for the U.S. and the ROW are-0.567 and-0.778 respectively indicating that the demand for wheat from both sources is inelastic. Cross-price elasticities indicate that U.S. wheat and ROW wheat are substitutes