Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, the authors examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has … affected trade with nonmembers and external tariffs facing nonmembers. First, the paper examines the effect of preferential and … external tariff reduction on import growth from ASEAN insiders and outsiders across HS 6-digit industries. The analysis finds …

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New …

- despite giving rise to higher aggregate welfare. Under the Doha scenario, the cuts in Cameroon's tariffs are very small (the … in negotiation between ACP countries and the EU, which propose a drastic dismantlement of ACP tariffs over the next few …

to under 50 percent. In turn, this reduction in time produces a 7 percent increase in import value. The paper finds …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the estimate of 7 percent import growth along an intensive margin is roughly consistent with a 0 …

unique data set compiled from unpublished customs records of imports, tariffs and all other taxes levied at the border. It …

. 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 …