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The Erosion of Tariff Preferences: The Impact of U.S. Tariff Reductions on Developing Countries
Reynolds, Kara - EconWPA - 2005
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the program instituted in 1976 that allows developing countries to export … the ability of the GSP program to encourage U.S. imports from beneficiary countries. This paper estimates the impact of U ….S. tariff reductions on imports from the developing world using a panel of import data from 76 countries and 2,389 GSP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119327
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Welfare Effects of Tariff Reduction Formulas
Jorgensen, Jan Guldager; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - EconWPA - 2005
WTO negotiations rely on tariff reduction formulas. It has been argued that formula approaches are of increasing importance in trade talks, because of the large number of countries involved, the wider dispersion in initial tariffs (e.g. tariff peaks) and gaps between bound and applied tariff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062606
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Why are Preferential Trade Agreements Regional? Increasing Returns, Multinationals and the Geography of Free Trade Agreements
Ludema, Rodney D. - EconWPA - 1999
This paper uses a model of horizontal multinational enterprises to explore the relationship between transportation costs and trade policy cooperation. Tariffs have the effect of attracting foreign direct investment to the benefit of consumers in the host country. As transport costs fall, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062652
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Are Preferential Trade Agreements with Non-trade Objectives a Stumbling Bloc for Multilateral Liberalization?
Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002
MFN tariffs, e.g. art. XXIV and GSP. By explicitly modeling the interaction between preferential and multilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556407
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Regional Trade Agreements
Pomfret, Richard - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reviews the evolution of thinking about regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the policy developments reflected in three waves of RTAs during the last half century. It rejects claims, based on number of RTAs notified to the WTO, that RTAs are today more prolific than ever. Desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556419
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Making EU Trade Agreements Work: The Role of Rules of Origin
Brenton, Paul; Manchin, Miriam - EconWPA - 2002
A key element of the EU’s free trade and preferential trade agreements is the extent to which they deliver improved market access and so contribute to the EUs foreign policy objectives towards developing countries and neighbouring countries in Europe, including the countries of the Balkans....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556447
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Trade Taxes Are Expensive
Erbil, Can - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications of trade reforms in the presence of a government budget constraint. There is consensus about gains from opening up to trade. The less investigated question is, whether a coordinated tax reform, where the tariff revenue cuts are compensated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556490
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ASSESSING REGIONAL TRADE ARRANGEMENTS: ARE SOUTH–SOUTH RTAs MORE TRADE DIVERTING?
Cernat, Lucian - EconWPA - 2001
It has generally been argued that regional trade agreements (RTAs) among developing countries may induce potential adverse effects on trade patterns among RTA members and between them and third countries. Using an expanded gravity model this paper estimates for a number of regional trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556495
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Competitive Liberalization or Competitive Diversion? The Relationship between Preferential Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System
Andriamananjara, Soamiely - EconWPA - 2003
This article discusses whether the current proliferation of preferential trade agreements-the so-called "competitive liberalization"-encourages evolution toward multilateral free trade. It argues that countries pursuing preferential trade initiatives are in pursuit of the economic rents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119253
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Trade and Growth under Limited Liberalization, The Case of Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; L\303\272cio Vinhas de Souza - EconWPA - 2001
This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119307