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The number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements has surged in recent years. In order to benefit from preferential tariff rates,firms must apply and comply with rules of origin requirements. This is costly and explains why preference utilization rates (PUR) are far below 100 percent. In...
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an increase in Brazilian sugar exports in the absence of SSG tariffs was calculated and also the overall impact on … raw sugar in EU and 30% for white sugar in US in years 1999 and 2002, which the additional tariffs were highest. In period … tariffs applied by EU were always higher than those applied by US. We estimated that the impact of the value of sugar that was …
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technologically advanced country can impose an import tariff on intermediates to lower foreign wages and increase national welfare. An … import tariff is ineffective for the technologically backward economy, which can instead lower institutional quality and … beneficial trade agreement may not exist if the import tariff has an upper bound. …
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internationally mobile firms. We address the key dimensions of economic disintegration, such as tariffs, non-tariff barriers, the …
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Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs …
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