Module 04 Discussion Forumn Introduction To Barriers To Trade

Hesham Alhammad EU Tariffs on Brazilian Instant CoffeeCOLLAPSETop of FormWhen a country has to pay to export/import goods to another country, this is what we call it tariffs. mainly there are four types of tariffs, which is import, export, protective and revenue tariffs. As ROBERT J. CARBAUGH defined tariff: ‘A tax (duty) levied on a product when it crosses national boundaries’ (Carbaugh,2017).In this thread I chose the case where European countries imposition tariffs on Brazil for export instant coffee. In the early ’90s, the market share of Brazil was 31% in 1992 and it’s reduced to 15% in 1998. The main reason for this reduced is there are several countries started to export the instant coffee such as Malaysia and Singapore, even the developed countries started to involved in this industry, such as Spain, Germany, Netherland…etc. anyway, in 1991 European Union started to implemented tariff on Brazil, in Jan 1997 EU imposed the tariff on Brazil 10.1%. from this case, I conclude the developed countries use tariffs to protect their products Even they are dispensable of this tariff but in order to control the market, they had to imposition tariffs on instant coffee. References : Carbaugh, R.