This paper aims to examine the effect of reducing the import tariffs of trading partners on total and individual … Balkans, the reduction of import simple average tariff rate (SAT) and weighted average tariff (WAT) rate have a positive …

tariffs. Design/methodology/approach - Data utilized were sourced from the World Bank's World Development and Governance …-regional trade in some selected ECOWAS member countries, with particular focus on the role of applied and most favoured nation import … Indicators, Mayer and Zignago (2006) distance index as well as the World Trade Organisation's World Integrated Trade System (WiTs …

affected. One possible outcome of Brexit is a situation where WTO tariffs apply to merchandise trade between the UK and the EU … falling by 5% (Finland) to 43% (Bulgaria) taking into account the new tariffs and the elasticity of the trade response to this …

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 …

tariffs.Design/methodology/approach – Data utilized were sourced from the World Bank's World Development and Governance …-regional trade in some selected ECOWAS member countries, with particular focus on the role of applied and most favoured nation import … Indicators, Mayer and Zignago (2006) distance index as well as the World Trade Organisation's World Integrated Trade System (WiTs …

This article empirically investigates the impact of trade barriers on the world wine trade, focusing on trade costs … impeding exports, including transport, tariffs, technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitarystandards. A gravity model is …. A decreasing trend for tariffs has largely been compensated by more stringent technical barriers. The overall result is …

two types of tariffs selected by tariffication of import quota are not generally equivalent in both their effects on price … 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 …

structural model of endogenous tariff evasion, one which then highlights the importance of both tariffs and border enforcement …