environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …

Designing appropriate import tariff rates is crucial for global trade. In this paper, we propose game-theoretic models … to investigate how tariff policies affect the competition of multinational firms (MNFs) in a global trading environment …-maximizing tariff or a trade-surplus-maximizing tariff. We derive the equilibrium outcomes under different tariff policies and analyze …

Studies of trade policy welfare effects often ignore the potential for tariff-jumping foreign direct investment (FDI … decisions are associated with average abnormal gains of over 3% to a firm in the petitioning industry in the absence of tariff …-jumping FDI, but much smaller and statistically insignificant abnormal gains if there is tariff-jumping FDI. We also find evidence …

system. Import tariffs, the traditional instrument for protecting domestic industries, however, have not played the primary … wholesale descent into protectionism in this respect. However, in other policy areas, such as state aid and WTO contingency … disciplines on subsides. While this is not classical protectionism offered to strictly national industries, we may see a new …