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"Product standards can have a dual impact on production and trade costs. Standards may impose additional costs on exporters as it may be necessary to adapt products for specific markets (cost-effect). In contrast, standards can reduce exporters' information costs if they convey information on...
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most-favored nation tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. The findings show …
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"Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and unconditionally blessed by multilateral trade rules. Chen and Mattoo find, theoretically and empirically, that such agreements increase trade between participating countries but not necessarily with the rest of the...
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considered: import tax cuts on rice and measures to increase productivity of domestic rice production. The results suggest that …
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Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The … authors provide estimates of the potential economic impacts of (1) complete or partial removal of cotton subsidies and import … tariffs globally, and (2) cotton productivity growth through the adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton varieties. They …
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