the welfare effects of tariffs can potentially be positive, even for small open economies, due to their impact on the …

Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporting firms ('extensive margin') or by restricting the … tariffs promoted during the 1990s by the Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreement affected the trade margins of French firms …-varying tariffs as a measure of variable trade costs. Our results show that the number of firms exporting in a given sector to a given …

Albeit nominal tariffs have been decreasing in the past decades, the rise of global manufacturing along global value … Protection Rates provide important insights on the impact of tariffs on the international competitiveness of national industries … impact of tariffs on the production cost of services. A final chapter explores the existence of underlying economic factors …

In this paper, we investigate the scale of the drop in American imports after it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese … on the specific market of textile products, which was among the most affected by the protectionism measures. The …

bilateral applied tariffs for each product category for the universe of available country pairs over the 2001 to 2016 period. We …

factors have influenced the pattern of tariffs or tariff reductions since the early 1990s. One result does appear frequently … average tariffs and in the dispersion of rates, with larger proportional reductions for higher tariffs – consistent with …

literature predicting nonequivalent effects of tariffs and quotas on domestic firms' market power. Using plant-level Census …