Date of Award:

5-1967

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Applied Economics

Department name when degree awarded

Agricultural Economics

Committee Chair(s)

George T. Blanch

Committee

George T. Blanch

Committee

Bartell C. Jensen

Committee

R. H. Anderson

Committee

C. A. Hofman

Committee

Raymond James

Abstract

This thesis is an attempt to evaluate quantitatively as well as qualitatively possible future developments in international trade of oranges and tangerines, and the possible impact of these developments on the export of oranges and tangerines by Israel.

After World War II, international trade in oranges and tangerines increased rapidly, mostly as a result of the rapid rise in standards of living and the improvements in diet habits which took place in many countries at that time. These favorable marketing conditions encouraged the planting of new groves in the citrus growing areas of the world and particularly those of the Mediterranean countries.

According to a prediction made by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (F.A.O.) concerning conditions in the international market for oranges and tangerines, supply and demand should at best balance by the year 1970. However, in the short run, complications can be expected as the market adjusts to the increase in demand for these fruits. During the same period for which these predictions were made by the F.A.O., Western Europe, the biggest consumer of oranges, will be working toward complete economic integration. The integration of the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) in particular will influence the trade of oranges and tangerines.

The two main factors which determine the E.E.C.'s policy toward oranges and tangerines are: (a) oranges and tangerines are good substitutes for apples and pears, and since the E.E.C. expects to have surpluses of apples and pears in the future, it has undertaken to protect these fruits against the importation of fruits that might replace them, and (b) Italy is at present the only full member of the E.E.C. which produces citrus fruits and, therefore, is seeking special protection for them.

Since statistics available refer to oranges and tangerines, the study will use the term oranges as a general term for both, unless there is a need for specification, direct quote, and abstraction.

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