IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/202515.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Agri-Food Trade: Globalization, Nearshoring, and Trade Networks

Author

Listed:
  • vJeff Luckstead

    (Washington State University)

Abstract

Recent geopolitical events—including, the U.S.-China trade war, Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine—have heightened trade policy uncertainty, disrupted supply chains, and accelerated nearshoring. These shifts may have reshaped the role of globalization in agri-food trade, particularly in how distance, trade networks measured by the number of export destinations, and nearshoring influence trade flows. Using a structural gravity model, this study examines how these factors in agri-food trade have changed between 2010 and 2023. The results indicate that recent globalization trends have increased the impact of distance on primary commodity trade but reduced it for processed food trade, though these changes do not appear to be driven by any single event. Nearshoring has reduced trade in primary and minimally processed food but has not affected processed food trade. While trade networks do not influence primary commodity trade, they enhance trade in both minimally processed and processed food products. Importantly, the interaction between nearshoring and trade networks expands trade, suggesting that these factors jointly mitigate trade frictions. Finally, the findings indicate that countries with broader trade networks experience lower trade costs associated with distance.

Suggested Citation

  • vJeff Luckstead, 2025. "Agri-Food Trade: Globalization, Nearshoring, and Trade Networks," Working Papers 202515, Center for Global Policy Analysis, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University.
    • Handle: RePEc:drx:wpaper:202515
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.lebow.drexel.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/202515-cgpa-agrifood-trade.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2025
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Agricultural Trade; Distance Puzzle; Globalization; Nearshoring; Trade Networks;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:drx:wpaper:202515. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Yoto V. Yotov (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cgdreus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.
    OSZAR »