disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports, the paper documents the progressive retreat of Argentine …

estimator to investigate how unpredictability in border clearance times for imports affects manufacturing firms' entry, exit …

Using highly disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports in Peru over the 2000 …?2012 period, this paper explores the relationship between imports of intermediate inputs and firm export performance. The paper … variety. The use of the advanced clearance procedure as the modality to clear customs for imports is favorable to the import …

the level and composition of imports. In this setting, the paper finds evidence that the expected median number of days … evidence that the reforms favored imports from preferential trading partners, especially the European Union. There are also …-oil imports produces a reform-induced trade cost savings estimate of approximately US$12 million in 2012 …

imports. These findings are important, as recent studies point toward a significant positive effect of imported inputs on …

imports from two groups of countries supplying the same product: those that are named in the petition and those that are not …. The same decomposition can be applied to products quite similar to the imports in question, but not subject to a petition … persistent positive relative supply shock favors imports from named countries. Second, a negative demand shock hits imports from …

for two separate periods 1991/92 - 2001/02 and 2001/02 - 2007/08. It also shows the shares of imports both from the rest … the 1990s, its contribution is relatively smaller during the 2000s. Imports from developing countries have grown much …