figures, primarily by developing country traders. This is due to the inflexible exchange rate regimes, severe import … restrictions and export subsidies prevailing in LDCs. In this paper we focus on the import under-invoicing due to high tariff … under-invoicing. We also look at the optimal levels of import tariff and instruments of government intervention in these …

Economic integration in South Asia is governed by India's relations with the other economies of the region and it is … also at the helm of all trade facilitation and transit issues of the region. Concessions given by India under SAFTA for … LDCs have greatly benefitted Bangladesh and concessions to non-LDC members have applied to its imports from Pakistan. India …

appear to have been insignificant. At the same time the change in tariffs appears to have created some trade diversion, with …

tariffs, using the US June 2020 tariff announcement and EU retaliation as illustrations. …

trends in wages and wage inequality. We use unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, wages, and wage inequality to … liberalization, ceteris paribus, reduces wages; ii) industry tariffs reduce the industry skill premium; iii) conditional on the … structure of tariffs at the industry level, the average tariff in the economy is positively associated with the aggregate skill …

gains of up to 2 percent. The data allow distinction between three types of tariffs: output, intra-firm and input tariff …