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This paper clarifies the problems inherent in quantitatively analyzing the effects of beef trade liberalization, which has been recently discussed in Japan. First, this paper demonstrates that the relationships among classes of beef are crucial to quantitatively analyzing the effects of beef trade liberalization according to surveys of previous research. Consideration of habit formation helps capture these relationships. Specification of the existence or non-existence of habit formation and identification of the type of habit formation that exists eliminates biases that tend to appear in estimates of demand structure. Looking at research that analyzes habit formation in food consumption in Japan, this paper demonstrates that all research to date has analyzed myopic habit formation and no work has been done on rational habit formation according to surveys of previous research. It then argues that the analysis of liberalization effects can be improved by selecting the habit formation model that most closely resembles reality, which can be the non-existence of habit formation, the myopic habit formation model, or the rational habit formation model.