in 2004 and 2005. This places Russia's tariffs at a level slightly higher than other middle-income countries and … Russia has increased between 2001 and 2003, from about 11.5 percent to between 13 percent and 14.5 percent, but held steady … considerably higher than Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. Russia implemented tariff simplification …

delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …