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Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2023

To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...

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Can taxing foreign competition harm the domestic industry?

Lutz, Stefan - 1998

The answer to the question in the title is yes for the case of ad-valorem taxes, a foreign industry that produces a vertically differentiated good of higher quality, and costs that take the form of qualitydependent fixed costs for both the foreign and domestic firm. The domestic industry loses...

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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income

Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - 2004

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …

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Containing Tariff Evasion

Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2023

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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade … environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Although trade costs associated with these …

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The EU-Ukraine trade liberalization : how much do the costs of tariff elimination matter?

Frey, Miriam; Olekseyuk, Zoryana - 2013

The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant … developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … trade liberalization, as the results vary significantly across the scenarios. In general, we find that tariff elimination …

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Inequality and relative reliance on tariffs : theory and evidence

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

In this paper we construct a Ricardian model of trade in vertically-differentiated products between a developing … country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in …-voter's preferred reliance on tariffs versus income taxes in order to effect the desired redistribution. Using data from 44 countries we …

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Published and realized tariffs : the weak link

Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996 - Revised

-industry manufacturing sector data over three Plan periods. Understanding this link is important as economies liberalize trade and must deal …

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Regional Integration and Lobbying for Tariffs Against Non-Members.

Cadot, O.; De Melo, J.; Olarreaga, M. - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 1996

regional trading arrangements (RIAS) on trade policy towards non-members in a three-good, three-country model. …

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Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements

Saggi, Kamal; Limao, Nuno - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2011

Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the … World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … extract and enforce trade concessions from larger developed economies even though as a group they would be able to do so. We …

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