In a model with cost-based informational asymmetry and trade policy determined endogenously, we show that tariffs and … follows from this difference in their sensitivities. The model is benchmarked so that under complete information tariffs and …

Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching … upstream ones are not affected. To quantify the aggregate effect of these tariffs, we build a model with international trade ….06%, but they decreased welfare by 2.4%. Using tariffs, the government can increase employment by as much as 2.8%. …

stock of existing transatlantic retaliatory tariffs and examines three different motives that explain how products are … evaluation of EU tariffs implemented in response to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs: within one year, imports of treated products …

converted into equivalent tariffs and further, reduced over time. However each member country has the authority to choose the … tariff types when it converts NTBs to tariffs such as ad valorem tariff and specific tariff. The paper tries to find the … achieve this goal, the paper analyses the effects of tariffication of a fixed quota into tariffs on price, trade and welfare …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …

Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …

equilibrium problems that captures world trade policies in the form of tariff rate quotas, which are two-tiered tariffs, and that … prices. Given the relevance of tariffs to global trade in the world today and discussions concerning the impacts, the … qualitatively analyzed and also related to models with trade policies such as ad valorem tariffs and strict quotas. A case study on …

We provide a novel (and old) argument for the nonequivalence of tariffs and quotas, based on the famous paper by … Hotelling (1931). Unlike tariffs, quantitative restrictions are inherently dynamic. As long as the foreign exporter earns …