Formulas and Flexibility in Trade Negotiations
Title | Formulas and Flexibility in Trade Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastien Jean |
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Pages | 33 |
Release | 2010 |
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Formulas and Flexibility in Trade Negotiations
Title | Formulas and Flexibility in Trade Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastien Jean |
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Pages | 36 |
Release | 2017 |
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Many trade negotiations involve large cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities allowing much smaller cuts for an agreed number of politically-sensitive products. The effects of these flexibilities on market access opportunities are difficult to predict, creating particular problems for developing countries in assessing whether to support a proposed agreement. Some widely-used ad hoc approaches to identifying likely sensitive products -- such as the highest-bound-tariff rule -- suggest that the impacts of a limited number of such exceptions on average tariffs and on market access are likely to be minor. This paper uses a rigorous specification based on the apparent objectives of policy makers in setting the pre-negotiation tariff. Applying this approach with detailed data allows the authors to assess the implications of sensitive-product provisions for average agricultural tariffs, economic welfare, and market access under the Doha negotiations. The authors conclude that highest-tariff rules are likely to seriously underestimate the impacts on average tariffs, and that treating even 2 percent of tariff lines as sensitive is likely to have a sharply adverse impact on economic welfare. The impacts on market access are also adverse, but much smaller, perhaps reflecting the mercantilist focus of the negotiating process.
Choosing Formulas for Market Access Negotiations
Title | Choosing Formulas for Market Access Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph F. Francois |
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Pages | 40 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Free trade |
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"An important issue in multilateral trade negotiations is the approach taken to reduce tariffs. The authors believe that there are important advantages in formula approaches and survey a range of options between the sharply top-down Swiss formula and proportional cuts in tariffs. Over the range the authors consider, they find that the economic efficiency impacts for the importer are not greatly influenced by the extent to which higher tariffs face bigger cuts. However, top-down approaches appear to be more effective in reducing tariff escalation, and provide greater market access gains to poor countries."--Verso cover.
Choosing Sensitive Agricultural Products in Trade Negotiations
Title | Choosing Sensitive Agricultural Products in Trade Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Sébastien Jean, David Laborde, and Will Martin |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 32 |
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Genre | Social Science |
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Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Title | Reciprocal Trade Agreements PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means |
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Pages | 538 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Reciprocity (Commerce) |
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Formula Approaches for Market Access Negotiations
Title | Formula Approaches for Market Access Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph F. Francois |
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Pages | 40 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Commercial treaties |
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Choosing Formulas for Markets Access Negotaiations: Efficinency and Markets Access Considerations
Title | Choosing Formulas for Markets Access Negotaiations: Efficinency and Markets Access Considerations PDF eBook |
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Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 32 |
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