Effects of Non-Tariff Barriers on Brazilian Fisheries Exports to Europe

presentationNon-tariff barriers (NTBs) affect particularly developing countries because of their market dependence on developed countries. Given the recent development of the Brazilian aquaculture, the analysis of the NTBs is critical face to its internationalization process. This article aims to analyze the impacts of NTBs implemented by EU to the Brazilian seafood exportations.\ud \ud \ud \ud The inventory-based approach was chosen with regard to their best capacity in estimating NTBs effects. Annual series of export values, between 1990 and 2010, were analyzed in order to identify the NTBs effects. The five more important groups of seafood exported were analyzed. The unit root test chose was the augmented Dickey–Fuller test (ADF).\ud \ud \ud \ud The analysis shows that the five series are no stationary, even at a significance level of 10%. Only the series of crustaceans is no stationary at a significance level of 5%. For crustaceans it is still necessary to differentiate one more time to find the correct order of series integration. Results show that only the fresh fish item has presented significant impact of NTB at a significance level of 10% (table 1). For the other four products the p-value shows that null hypothesis that the effects are different from zero cannot be rejected