countries across the world (225 countries in the current version of the database). For most of them, different calculations of …

computing ad valorem equivalents of tariff protection, and when computing averages at aggregate levels. The world average … of specific tariffs of some agricultural products, linked to the surge in world prices, lowers the average protection. In … the opposite way, the increasing share of developing countries, where protection is higher, tend to raise the world …

world will continue to provide tariff revenues. Thus when tariff revenue losses are computed on total ACP imports, losses …

Vietnam’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on January 11, 2007 has represented the outcome of decades of …