Egypt and the Enlargement of the EEC (European Economic Community): Impact on the Agricultural Sector

The present article is an edited version of a paper presented to the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fur Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissen-schaften des Landbaues, Hannover, 1980. In it the authors examine the impact of the second enlargement of the EEC on the agricultural sector of Egypt, considering the impacts on Egypt’s agricultural trade and, through the use of a linear programming model, the long term impacts of EEC enlargement. The authors conclude that, in the short run, the southward expansion of the EEC will impose only a limited additional burden on the Egyptian economy. But, in the long run the burden placed on Egypt by increased protectionism in the expanded EEC could be much more severe. Fig., notes, tab.