preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the impact of tariffs on the production costs of services. A final …

The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four …

model that incorporates bilateral tariffs and a number of indicators for the quality of infrastructure. The paper looks at … estimators, multilateral resistances for tariffs and remoteness are introduced in the gravity equation. Moreover, the robustness … included. The results can be summarised in four main findings: (i) bilateral tariffs, generally neglected in gravity regression …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … bound tariffs at ceiling levels often substantially above the level of applied tariffs. Therefore, whether the ceiling rate …. Using a recently built database on applied tariffs covering over 100 countries for the period 1996 to 2009, we find evidence …

further indicate that the market of health products is dominated by a small number of developed countries. Looking at tariffs … overall level of tariffs is low, but far from being zero, especially in the last three country groups. Finally, studying the … tariffs on health products in preferential trade agreements between developing countries, the results show that the tariff …