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Coordinating Tax Reforms in the Poorest Countries : Can Lost Tariffs Be Recouped?
Waglé, Swarnim - 2017
unique data set compiled from unpublished customs records of imports, tariffs and all other taxes levied at the border. It …
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Implementing Carbon Tariffs : A Fool's Errand?
Moore, Michael - 2017
Some governments are considering taxes on imports based on carbon content from countries that have not introduced climate change policies. Such carbon border taxes appeal to domestic industries facing higher charges for their own carbon emissions. This research demonstrates that there are...
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Household Impacts of Tariffs : Data and Results from Agricultural Trade Protection
Artuc, Erhan - 2019
database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and …. Using a stylized model of the first-order impacts of import tariffs on household real income, this paper quantifies the … welfare implications of agricultural trade protection. On average, unilateral elimination of agricultural tariffs would …
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The Distortionary Effects of Tariff Exemptions in Argentina
Pohl, Gerhard - 2017
Tariff exemptions for exporters are widely used by many countries as an instrument for providing export incentives. This author argues that when tariff exemptions are granted as a means of industrial regional promotion to an industry independently of its export performance, the tariff exemptions...
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Estimates of Ad Valorem Equivalents of Barriers Against Foreign Suppliers of Services in Eleven Services Sectors and 103 Countries
Jafari, Yaghoob - 2017
A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 countries are available on 11 of the most important services sectors in international trade. Based on these data and building on the methodology and publications supported by...
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Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
tariffs …
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Impact of Free Trade Agreement Use on Import Prices
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - 2018
controlling for importing firm-related fixed effects. Second, on average, firms'FTA use reduces tariffs by 12 percentage points …
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Differentiated Products and Evasion of Import Tariffs
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2016
Emerging literature has demonstrated some unique characteristics of trade in differentiated products. This paper contributes to the literature by postulating that differentiated products may be subject to greater tariff evasion due to the difficulties associated with assessing their quality and...
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The Upstream Tariff Simulator (UTAS) : A Tool to Assess the Impact of Tariff Reform on Input Costs and Effective Protection Across Sectors
Eberhard-Ruiz, Andreas - 2020
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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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
This paper surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major economies that collectively represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five questions: Do some countries have more liberal trading...
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