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Since the United States imposed antidumping and countervailing duties totaling 14.16 percent on imports of Canadian hard red spring (HRS) wheat, Canadian exports to the United States have nearly stopped. This study examines the changes in U.S. wheat imports from Canada. An econometric model is...
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Since the United States imposed antidumping and countervailing duties totaling 14.16 percent on imports of Canadian hard red spring (HRS) wheat, Canadian exports to the United States have nearly stopped. This study examines the impact of the decreased HRS wheat imports from Canada on U.S. wheat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446485
Measures (SCM), affect the choice and the level of tariffs and subsidies -- two of the most important and frequently observed … country joins the WTO, there will be an increase in its tariffs in those sectors that face a threat of retaliation against … retaliation to subsidization, will experience a switch towards tariffs as an alternative instrument of income redistribution …
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Antidumping duties are popular in the United States because under the Byrd Amendment domestic industry gets to keep tariff revenues. However, whether antidumping duties are an effective instrument of protection depends crucially on the tariff's ability to increase demand for the home good. Under...
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This paper presents the results of a survey and analysis ofelectricity tariffs and marginal electricity prices for … commercialbuildings. The tariff data come from a survey of 90 utilities and 250tariffs for non-residential customers collected in 2004 as …
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March 15,2004. The main overall goals of this new regulation are: to allow the lowest possible tariffs for end users, while …
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utility commissions (PUC) and utilities have considered implementing dynamic pricing tariffs, such as real-time pricing (RTP … is appropriate for utilities to offer a range of dynamic pricing tariffs and DR programs, or just ''plain vanilla … tariffs, three basic implementation issues require attention. First, should it be a default or optional tariff, and for which …
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Real-time pricing (RTP) has been advocated as an economically efficient means to send price signals to customers to promote demand response (DR) (Borenstein 2002, Borenstein 2005, Ruff 2002). However, limited information exists that can be used to judge how effectively RTP actually induces DR,...
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While more than 70 utilities in the U.S. have offered voluntary RTP tariffs on either a pilot or permanent basis, most … stimulate price responsive demand, we conducted a survey of 43 voluntary RTP tariffs offered in 2003. The survey involved …
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California electric utilities have been exploring the use of dynamic critical peak prices (CPP) and other demand response programs to help reduce peaks in customer electric loads. CPP is a tariff design to promote demand response. Levels of automation in DR can be defined as follows: Manual...
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