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BIO Web Conf.
Volume 56, 2023
43rd World Congress of Vine and Wine
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| Article Number | 03013 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Economy and Law | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20235603013 | |
| Published online | 24 February 2023 | |
The role of climate and trade policies in the wine sector
Deptartment of Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources and Engineering, University of Foggia, Italy
New production and trade patterns due to climate change and policy interventions are increasingly affecting the wine sector. This paper investigates how patterns of production and trade in main wine producing regions respond to changes in climate and policy interventions. An approach based on a combination of Ricardian trade and climate models suggests that higher temperatures in the main producing regions of wine benefit both production and trade of wine. A gravity-based analysis shows that the effects of policy interventions on the global trade of wine are heterogeneous and dependent on the specific objective of the intervention.
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1 Introduction
Over the last decades, trade in the wine sector at the global level faced considerable changes due to new productive scenarios induced by climate change and to new types of policy interventions.
As for the effect of climate change, the existing literature demonstrated that trade of wine is affected by climate change (e.g., [1, 2]) but with significant differences across producing regions of wine (e.g., [3, 4]). However, the effect of climate change on wine production and trade patterns seems to have not been identified at global level. As for policy interventions, previous studies have quantified the effects of tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) (e.g., [5]), and evaluated the role of specific NTMs, i.e., technical measures such as Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures and Technical Barriers to Trade (e.g., [6, 7]). But studies deepening on the relationship between new productive scenarios induced by climate change and new types of policy interventions (i.e., tariff, NTMs, environment-related policies) are rather scant.
The gap in the empirical literature calls for more investigation to understand if climate change may affect the production and trade of wine, and if policy interventions (tariffs, NTMs, environment-related policies) differently affect trade patterns because of changing productive scenarios. We deepen on these research questions, to understand which the impacts of climate change on global production and trade of wine are, and what the reactions of trading partners to new production and trade dynamics, due to climate change, are in terms of new types of policy interventions.
The aim of the paper is two-fold. First, it would understand the effects of climate change on global production and trade of wine. A vast literature deepens on the nexus between climate change, production, and trade (for a review see [8]), but evidence for the wine sector are limited (e.g., [1]. The existing studies assumes that, for open economies, the impacts of climate change on agriculture move from one region to the other, thus they are likely to affect differently all regions in the world [9]. This assumption implies that within regions (through production patterns) and between regions (through trade patterns) adjustments contribute to differentiate the impacts of climate change [10, 11]. This conceptual framework is applied to the wine sector in this paper.
Second, the paper would investigate the reaction of trade partners to new policy interventions, due to climate change, in terms of trade dynamics. As argued in Randhir and Hertel [12], climate change and agricultural trade policies are connected and policy interventions have consequences on global welfare in the context of climate change.
2 Methods
To understand the effects of climate change on global production and trade of wine, we propose an econometric approach, based on a combination of methods used in Ricardian trade (e.g., [13]) and climate (e.g., [14, 15]) studies.
To understand how climate change affects their production and trade capacity, we estimate the following:
where the wine supply of country i at time t (Supplyit) is regressed on region- and time-specific determinants (e.g., [2]), proxied by macro-region and time fixed effects (λm and λt), region-specific (r) climate variables (Climater). θ is the vector of regression coefficients of interest and εit is the error term.
As dependent variable, Supplyit, we use alternatively the volume of countries’ wine production, to investigate the responsiveness of production patterns, and the value of countries’ wine exports, to capture the effects on the trade patterns.
In line with climate literature (e.g., [16]), climate variables, Climater, include climatologies (i.e., 30- years rolling averages) of temperature and precipitation, and their squares.
To investigate the reaction of trade partners to new policy interventions, due to climate change, in terms of trade dynamics, we adopt a gravity-type approach (e.g., [17, 18]).
We explain how bilateral trade reacts to changes in specific determinants of trade (i.e., trade regulations, climate-induced changes in productivity), net to the effect of country-specific characteristics of trading partners (e.g., [19, 20]) estimating the following:
where trade between the trading partners i and j at time t (Xiit) is regressed on importer-time and exporter- time fixed effects (βit and βit) controlling for multilateral resistances (e.g., [21, 22]), country-pair fixed effects (βit) capturing bilateral time-invariant determinants of trade (e.g., [23, 24]), time-varying determinants of trade (Tiit). γ is the vector of regression coefficients of interest and νiit is the error term.
Tiit include the log of ad valorem tariffs, dummies proxying the presence of technical measures such as Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). We control, alternatively, for the presence of at least a TBT (as general category), for the presence of environment- related TBT (i.e., TBT pursuing a specific objective), for the presence of TBT addressing a specific environmental issue (e.g., authorisation requirement for environmental reasons).
In a sensitivity analysis, the model in Eq. (2) also controls for the effect of countries’ excess of production due to long-run changes in climate (i.e., the prediction of countries’ supply from Eq. (1)).
Our empirical application considers a sample of 14 countries observed over two decades (from 1996 to 2015). The selected countries account for more than two- third of the volume of wine production [25].
Table 1 provides a synthesis of data used for the empirical investigation and data sources.
Summary description of data.
3 Main results and concluding remarks
Our results confirm that climate change impacts on both production and trade of wine. Higher annual temperatures in the main producing regions of wine tend to expand the volume of wine production. As for precipitation in the main producing regions of wine, the volume of wine production increases at a declining rate up to a threshold level after which it declines (non-linear relationship, Table 2).
The beneficial impact of higher temperatures on the production levels of main wine producing regions are observed also on countries’ trade, i.e., export capacity (Table 2).
The results also reveal the impact of policy interventions on bilateral trade relationships in the wine sector (Table 3).
The impact of policy interventions on bilateral trade of wine highly depends on the objective of the measure set by countries implementing technical measures. Overall, TBT are barriers to trade of wine. This is in line with previous empirical evidence [5, 7, 26]. Differently, policy interventions regulating environmental issues are catalysts to trade of wine, although differences in the impacts are observed across specific interventions. For instance, TBT B14which provides for authorisation requirement limits less wine trade than TBT B21 which provides for tolerance limits for residues of or contamination by certain substances. In fact, different measures tend to pursue specific objectives [27] with consequent differential impacts on trade [28].
Responsiveness of wine production and trade to climate.
Responsiveness of bilateral trade to environment- related measures.
Acknowledgments
The research has been supported by a Research Grant funded by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). We are grateful to Tatiana Svinartchuk and Tony Battaglene for helpful comments on the previous version of this study.
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