This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level using a unique dataset that includes data on most favored nation (MFN) and bilateral preferential tariffs at the 4-digit ISIC level for 11 Latin American countries over the...

This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level using a unique dataset that includes data on most favored nation (MFN) and bilateral preferential tariffs at the 4-digit ISIC level for 11 Latin American countries over the...

Latin America and East Asia presented diversified performance in industrialization in the 1990s, and one of the crucial factors that made the contrast was the different degree of developing international production/distribution networks. This paper analyzes micro data of Japanese multinational...