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developing and emerging countries over several years, merged with destination-product-specific information on tariffs and non … isomorphic to that of tariffs: the observed pricing-to-market behavior suggests that, although tariffs reduce the market power of …
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. Using a stylized model of the first-order impacts of import tariffs on household real income, this paper quantifies the … increase household incomes by 2.50 percentage points. Import tariffs have highly heterogeneous effects across countries and … database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and …
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the sectors in which tariffs are high or low? How diverse is the tariff structure of Russia? Surprisingly, these questions … specific Russian tariffs. The authors have obtained a new data set that they describe in this book. As a result of these new … data, the authors are able to calculate the ad valorem equivalents of the specific tariffs. This allows them to provide the …
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current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs … binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs-what is also … known as tariffs' water. The results show that trade policy uncertainty is an important barrier to exports and its effects …
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represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … import protection? How do trade policies change over time? Do countries discriminate among their trading partners when … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross …
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production. In this context, tariff policy design needs to consider the impact downstream of changes in tariffs upstream. Policy … downstream? What are the key input tariffs that could be reduced to lower production costs in priority sectors considering … Excel-based tool designed to help policy makers answer these questions, by combining information on tariffs and input …
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Tariff modernization will help Bangladesh diversify its export basket. Tariff modernization is at the crux of input competitiveness for efficient manufacturing given that more than 90 percent of the raw material for exportable goods are imported in Bangladesh and the other export incentives like...
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tariffs as a negotiating tool at the WTO. Arguments in favor of uniformity are: political economy considerations …
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This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade …
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How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages … workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political economy. Theory predicts that discretionary final goods tariffs … too strong, final goods tariffs will also be decreasing in the foreign content of domestically-produced final goods. The …
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