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of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies a linear optimization framework to data for bound tariffs, applied … tariffs, and imports at the HS-6 digit level for 58 developing countries, and simulates results for different sets of import …
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trade policy - particularly the tariffs placed on imports from China - on importers, consumers, and exporters. We start by … documenting that the tariffs were almost fully passed through to total prices paid by importers, suggesting the tariffs' incidence … several large multi-national retailers, we demonstrate that the impact of the tariffs on retail prices is more mixed. Some …
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.S. auto tariffs. The second analyzes a 'transactional deal' between the U.S. and China to close their bilateral deficit. The … third, in the absence of such a deal, considers a potential escalation in bilateral tariffs between the two countries. Some …
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reducing public revenues, showing that for a small open economy, a cut in tariffs combined with a point-for-point increase in …
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In this paper a general equilibrium intertemporal model with optimizing consumers and producers is developed to analyze how the imposition of a temporary import tariff affects the path of real exchange rates and the current account. The model is completely real, and considers a small open...
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This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of tariffs. Existing theoretical models do not provide clear … the hypothesis that tariffs have no statistically significant impact on the trade balance, the real exchange rate, or the …
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We demonstrate that durable MFN tariff elimination affects trade patterns through several layers, which generates non-linear impacts. First, complete tariff elimination results in a large additional trade gains over and above tariff reductions. Second, commitment to durable tariff elimination,...
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In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …
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This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …
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-CARICOM countries against time and commodity-level variation in external tariffs. I find that in each country the reduction of the …
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