figures, primarily by developing country traders. This is due to the inflexible exchange rate regimes, severe import … restrictions and export subsidies prevailing in LDCs. In this paper we focus on the import under-invoicing due to high tariff … under-invoicing. We also look at the optimal levels of import tariff and instruments of government intervention in these …

an increase in Brazilian sugar exports in the absence of SSG tariffs was calculated and also the overall impact on … raw sugar in EU and 30% for white sugar in US in years 1999 and 2002, which the additional tariffs were highest. In period … tariffs applied by EU were always higher than those applied by US. We estimated that the impact of the value of sugar that was …

The recent U.S. trade policy shift has reignited interest about the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs. This paper … examines the impacts of import tariff shocks on U.S. macroeconomic performance using quarterly data from 1989-2017. Relying …

The recent U.S. trade policy shift has reignited interest about the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs. In this … paper, we examine the impacts of import tariff shocks on U.S. macroeconomic performance using quarterly data from 1989 …

welfare changes due to WTO accession increases more than three times when China's pre-intervention tariffs are raised from …. In China, duty exemptions have been central to the process of trade reform and have led to a tremendous increase in … duty exemptions in the case of China's recent WTO accession will overstate the increase in China's trade flows by 40 …

. We calibrate such a model to China’s trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …

. We calibrate such a model to China's trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …

Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence … up the chain for final-good tariffs, input tariffs may drive final-good producers to relocate abroad, mitigating their …

This paper examines the impact of China's falling import tariffs on the organization of exports between ordinary and …. At the industry level, we find that falling input tariffs are the source of 90 percent of the average increase in the …