This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV …

other exports manufactured goods (agricultural equipment). It is shown that non-policy trade costs tend to be much higher … than policy trade costs, especially in the case of Brazil's exports of soybeans. International freight costs are also …-policy trade costs than in policy trade costs. …

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the …

Preliminary empirical assessment impact regional market access liberalization on trade …

of new trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz, 2003). In these models, freer trade … the theory to analyze whether a reduction in trade costs increases the probability of becoming an exporter relatively more … in industries with greater microeconomic flexibility and whether plant exit driven by trade costs declines is more likely …

This paper examines the impact of trade policy on production specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries … explicitly assesses the potential implications of a trade agreement with the United States. …