The recent literature on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) emphasizes the distinction between the extensive and intensive margins. What has been missing is the distinction between tariff and non-tariff changes under PTAs. Tariff reduction is a quintessential feature of PTAs. But member...

Are preferential trade agreements (PTAs) building or stumbling blocks for multilateral trade liberalization? I address this question in an infinitely repeated tariff game between three countries engaged in intraindustry trade under oligopoly. The central result is that when countries are...

The institution of special trade relations, such as in preferential-trade areas (PTAs) requires some evidence of the origin of the products that may benefit from the concessions. These conditions constitute the so-called rules of origin. These rules are designed to preclude the exports from...

The United States grants preferential (tariff- and quota-free) market access to a list of products from eligible countries in sub-Saharan Africa through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). We analyse the increase in prices received by apparel exporters who benefited from AGOA...

This work provides a revised method of aggregation of tariff line data that is consistent with a common objective of the preferential policies. Using constant-elasticity-of-substitution aggregators we compute the uniform preferential tariff reduction that would leave the volume of imports...

There has been a proliferation of preferential trade agreements within the last two decades. This paper analyzes the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on external tariffs in small economies where protection decisions are made politically. It extends the Grossman and Helpman (1995) model by...