2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on the Structural Change in the Meet Markets in the North and South America
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23580323
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMIZU Junichi 農林水産省農林水産政策研究所, その他部局等, 研究員 (70356294)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OE Tetsuo 明治大学, 農学部, 教授 (60409498)
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| Research Collaborator |
BANNAI Hisashi 農村金融研究会, 主任研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 農産物貿易 / 食肉 / 米国 / ブラジル / 飼料穀物 |
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| Research Abstract |
In the first place, we investigated the meat markets in the North America. In the case of US, the result of the statistical analysis indicates that US is relying on NAFTA countries and Asian countries, especially China. As far as the meat trade is concerned, the interrelation among the NAFTA countries has been already established, targeting Japan as the final importing country.
Secondly, we analyzed the meat industry of Brazil by focusing on the two world's largest meat packers. Both companies have been performing M&As actively abroad in recent years, and, as a result, they have turned into multinational companies of meat for a short period of time. For the moment, in Brazil, intra-industry trades of meats are not observed like the U.S. However, if these companies make the base of meat processing abroad and start exporting meats from there, it is clear that also in Brazil a possibility that the intra-industry trade of meat will increase is very high.
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