International trade of flowers. Tendencies and policies

TL;DR

This paper analyzes international flower trade trends and policies, highlighting regional trade tendencies and the need for more coherent international policies, based on data from Portugal and global sources.

Contribution

It provides an initial analysis of flower trade tendencies and policies, using data and estimations based on convergence theory and volatility analysis.

Findings

Trade tends to occur between neighboring countries.

Current policies lack coherence and need improvement.

Data volatility analysis reveals trade pattern fluctuations.

Abstract

There are few papers about the international trade of flowers, so it is believed that this paper, with this topic, could be an important contribution to the international scientific community. It is intended to analyze if the international trade flowers tendencies and policies are adapted to the actual world global context. For that it was used data about the import and export of flowers, in different forms, between Portugal and the world. This is an approach to understand the international trade flowers tendencies and policies. To better understand the data analyzed it is made several estimations based in the absolute convergence theory and an analyze of the data volatility. As main conclusions, there is a tendency to the countries trade the flowers between the neighbors and is needed a more coherent policy for the international trade of flowers.