Identificar los principales mecanismos empleados en la política comercial para proteger al sector arrocero ecuatoriano

Abstract

World globalization has allowed nations to configure global value chains and trade liberalization, and governments have also begun to implement different trade policies that allow them to take advantage of the phenomenon of globalization, by means of which they seek to promote exports or restrict imports, and thus benefit and safeguard national production; One of the production chains with the most problems in Ecuador is that of rice. Taking this context into account, the objective was to identify the main mechanisms used in Ecuadorian trade policy to protect the Ecuadorian rice sector; to meet this objective, bibliographic research was carried out from different sources, including repositories, indexed journals, Ecuadorian government web pages, among others; After completing the work, it can be concluded that Ecuador has different trade policy mechanisms that allow it to protect the Ecuadorian rice sector from competition, particularly from the countries of the Andean Community of Nations, among these are: Ecuadorian tariffs AD-VALOREM (Arancel Cobrados a las Mercancías), FODINFA (Fondo de Desarrollo para la Infancia), ICE (Impuesto a los Consumos Especiales), IVA (Impuesto al Valor Agregado), Arancel Externo Común (AEC), subsidies, and the Sistema Andino de Franjas de Precios (SAFP); The economic policies implemented for this product have had advantages and disadvantages; however, the sector's main problem is the low level of productive efficiency achieved, making it difficult to compete with this product on the world market.