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This study analyzes the comparative advantages of China, India, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) in the world agricultural trade and investigates whether the protection policies implemented by the countries have an impact on comparative advantages. China and India have moved to the high ranks in the world agricultural trade in recent years. While these two countries, especially India, try to protect their agricultural sector through tariffs, the USA and the EU protect their agricultural sectors through domestic supports. The developing countries, led by China and India, have complained about the high protection rates applied by the developed countries, and this has always been a prominent subject in the World Trade Organization (WTO) rounds. In this study, the issue of whether protectionism affects comparative advantage has been tried to be analyzed with the econometric model. According to the findings, it was concluded that protectionist domestic policies did not affect the comparative advantage of the USA and the EU, but comparative advantage increased in China and India, where domestic protection rates are low and these countries pursue only tariffs in the agricultural trade.

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