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Political influence in a new antidumping regime : evidence from Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2004

We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target … countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly … political benefits of providing protection. They are also in line with the existing empirical literature on antidumping, which …

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Different antidumping legislations within the WTO : what can we learn from China's varying market economy status?

Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai; Yalçin, Erdal - 2020

This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they … reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other … differently compared to specific duties or duties conditional on the export price. Overall, however, antidumping duties remain …

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The choice of modeling firm heterogeneity and trade restrictions

Cole, Matthew T. - 2009

There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. However, these models tend to rely heavily on symmetry assumptions and assume melting iceberg transport costs as the only form of trade restrictions. Moreover, a standard...

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Preferences, rent destruction and multilateral liberalisation : the building block effect of CUSFTA

Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - 2012

If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...

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How did China's WTO entry benefit U.S. consumers?

Amiti, Mary; Dai, Mi; Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John - 2017

China's rapid rise in the global economy following its 2001 World Trade Organization (WTO) entry has raised questions about its economic impact on the rest of the world. In this paper, we focus on the U.S. market and potential consumer benefits. We find that the China trade shock reduced the...

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Trading firms and trading costs in services : firm-level analysis

Rouzet, Dorothée; Benz, Sebastian; Spinelli, Francesca - 2017

This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It first describes the...

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Services trade costs in the United States : a simulation based on the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index

Benz, Sebastian; Jaax, Alexander - 2020

While services account for almost 80% of GDP in the United States and a growing share of global trade, regulatory barriers to services trade around the world are still high. Using a hypothetical liberalisation scenario, this paper assesses the potential reduction of trade costs that could be...

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Investment responses to trade liberalization : evidence from U.S. industries and establishments

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2017 - This draft: November 2017

This paper examines the effect of a change in U.S. trade policy on the domestic investment of U.S. manufacturers. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we find that industries more exposed to reductions in import tariff uncertainty exhibit relative declines in investment...

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India's reform of external sector policies and future multilateral trade negotiations

Srinivasan, Thirukodikaval N. - 2001

I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic countries. Despite improvement over the past in export...

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Are preferential agreements beneficial to EU trade? : new evidence from the EU-South Korea treaty

Quintieri, Beniamino; Stamato, Giovanni - 2023

This paper empirically investigates the effect of the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) on manufacturing trade flows. By applying a state-of-the-art structural gravity model with intranational (i.e., domestic) trade and using disaggregated data, we quantify both the trade impact and the...

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