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This paper analyses the effect of antidumping (AD) duties on the pricing behaviour of exporters targeted with these …, unlike other import tariffs, AD duties are not absorbed by exporters. The results on firms' average markups also suggest that …
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We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic efficiency, political economy shocks, and...
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import tariffs. This Weekly Report shows that the costs of such a strategy are immense, at least in the medium-term analysis …
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Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This paper argues that existing results in the literature are upward biased because of measurement...
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This paper provides a rough test of a broad and prominent class of political economy of trade models and finds them wanting. The class features governments with weighted social welfare functions, including the prominent model of Grossman and Helpman. Whether the government is the single domestic...
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Theoretical comparisons of the welfare consequences of tariffs, subsidies and import licenses have relied on the … whether a recent change in U.S. antidumping law known as the Byrd Amendment bestows private benefits to firms lobbying for … that industries have chosen to lobby for more tariff protection, or filed more antidumping petitions, since passage of the …
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that time-varying trade barriers may be another channel for market instability. …
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that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …
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.g. most favored nation tariffs) and on the exporter side (e.g. export subsidies), even in the presence of exporter and …-supply elasticity and of the import-demand elasticity. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques in the case of MFN tariffs and … "Time to Export" as representative determinants of trade on the importer and on the exporter side, respectively. Our methods …
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The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...
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