This paper examines the effects of international trade and trade policy in a two-country, two-good model with an open-access renewable resource that is internationally shared. We show that both countries may still benefit from trade when they specialize in the production of their comparative advantage good, although the shared resource is reduced by trade. In addition, we demonstrate that the steady state utility of a resource-good importing country may be reduced by trade, even if it specializes in the production of a non-resource good. Import tariffs and export taxes on a resource good may increase or decrease the shared stock level depending on the production patterns in a trading steady state. The trade policy is likely to be Pareto-improving when the shared stock rises, while both countries may be made worse off by the trade policy when the shared stock falls.
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