Import Demand for Beer Inputs in Latin America

GARCIA ARANCIBIA RODRIGO; CORONEL MARIANO; GUSTAVO ROSSINI; JIMENA VICENTIN MASARO

Montevideo

Congreso; 2 nd Inter-Conference Symposium, the 6 to Congreso Regional de Economía Agraria and the 1 st Latin- American Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency; 2023

The Argentinean, Chilean, and Uruguayan Agricultural Economics Associations and the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)

Over the last 25 years, the Latin American beer sector has undergone important changes. The growth in beer production, consumption, and trade has been accompanied by a greater demand for malt and barley produced and traded in the region, displacing other traditional export countries of these inputs. Based on these facts, we estimated the elasticities of demand of imported inputs of the main Latin American brewing countries. This allows us to infer about Latin America's competitive position as a supplier of its own beer inputs.