Bourdet, Yves; Persson, Maria - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2010
both tariff and non-tariff barriers like trade procedures. We argue that since trade procedures vary markedly across EU … countries, the EU is not, strictly speaking, a customs union. To illustrate this, we estimate the impact of trade procedures on … would be of harmonizing trade procedures, i.e. to actually complete the EU customs union, we find that aggregated exports to …