WTO imposed tariff reforms will reduce the overall welfare level of the Vietnamese households. Moreover, the biggest loss … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

that countries do vary tariffs. Most importantly, we find evidence that applied tariffs of tariff lines that are bound are … the level of the water (i.e. the gap between bound and applied tariff). This finding is robust to controlling for … political economy determinants of tariffs and to factors related to the economic cycle. -- water in the tariff ; weak …

examine the structure of wages in Argentina and to explore how it is affected by tariff reforms. We find that i) trade … structure of tariffs at the industry level, the average tariff in the economy is positively associated with the aggregate skill …