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Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm … both agricultural and non-agricultural policy measures including import or export taxes, subsidies and quantitative … assistance to farmers in China for the period 1981 to 2005; and by summarizing estimates from an economy-wide CGE model of the …
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living. Working in the export predicts gains and in the import-competing sector losses, a finding that is re-inforced by …
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developed countries (LDCs), both directly and through the price-depressing effect of agricultural support policies. High tariffs … the impact of a 50 percent cut in tariffs and a 50 cut in domestic support for LDCs as compared to non-LDC developing …
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output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to those on intermediate inputs. Lower … tariffs. A 10 percentage point fall in output tariffs increases productivity by about 1%, whereas an equivalent fall in input …
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We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …
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impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … identify the impact of increased import competition on firm performance and its contribution to the significant productivity …
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negotiations as potentially addressing the terms-of-trade externality problem that governments implement import protection above … disputes over 1995-2009. Our evidence is consistent with theoretical predictions that larger import volume outcomes are …) as a result of the dispute, larger pre-dispute import volumes, larger import demand elasticities, and smaller foreign …
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The impact of protection on economic growth is one of the traditional issues in economic history, which has enjoyed a revival in recent times, with the publication of a number of comparative quantitative papers. They all share a common weakness: they measure protection with the ratio of custom...
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We evaluate the impact of the export promotion program delivered by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service on various dimensions of export performance. Over the 1999-2006 time period we study, Canadian firms successfully diversified their exports to destinations beyond the United States and...
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indication of China moving up the quality ladder in its clothing exports relative to the EU. While European ‘core’ products in … year and ‘core’ products changing rapidly. Both China and the EU export in every product category, resulting in an almost …
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