Export Restrictions

From the AP: The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. ... Earlier this week, representatives of the U.S. baking industry went to Washington to ask the Bush

Argentina is limiting its beef exports: Taming inflation was [former President Nestor] Kirchner's goal when he banned most [Argentine] beef exports last year. This year, exports were capped at 480,000 metric tons, down from nearly 700,000 tons in 2005. Kirchner's wife, the newly elected

A student of mine has just submitted an interesting paper on the economic effects of, and legal disciplines on, export restrictions.  The case he has in mind is Chinese coke.  It appears that export restrictions have trade distorting effects symmetric with import restrictions. Of course, export prohibitions are illegal under