Economic theory suggests that countries' tariff commitments in trade agreements reflect their import market power at …-Uruguay Round applied tariffs and relying on the theoretical framework of the terms-of-trade motive for trade agreements, we …

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 … layers. Import demand elasticities are found to be non-linear: Tariff reduction (layer 1) has relatively small impacts, while …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …

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 …

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