2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.inteco.2014.09.001
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Illegal trade in natural resources: Evidence from missing exports

Abstract: Countries restrict the export of natural resources to lower domestic prices, stimulate downstream industries, earn rents on international markets, or on environmental grounds. This paper provides empirical evidence of evasion of such export barriers. Using tools from the illicit trade literature, I show that exports of minerals, metals, or wood products are more likely to be missing from the exporter's statistics if they face export barriers such as prohibitions or taxes. Furthermore, I show that this relation… Show more

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“… See Javorcik and Narciso (), Mishra et al (), Ferrantino et al (), Stoyanov (), Bouët and Roy (), and Epaphra (). Also see Berger and Nitsch (), which focuses on the world’s top five importers, and Buehn and Eichler (), which focuses on trade with the U.S. Vézina () examines misreported trade in natural resources, and Rotunno and Vézina () examines US apparel imports from China. …”
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“… See Javorcik and Narciso (), Mishra et al (), Ferrantino et al (), Stoyanov (), Bouët and Roy (), and Epaphra (). Also see Berger and Nitsch (), which focuses on the world’s top five importers, and Buehn and Eichler (), which focuses on trade with the U.S. Vézina () examines misreported trade in natural resources, and Rotunno and Vézina () examines US apparel imports from China. …”
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“…In addition, Respondent C replied that his/her country did not have seizures of illegal plants or knowledge of trafficking routes, nor in fact much legal trade in CITES plants either. However, considering recent research on CITES noncompliance and on dark numbers in the trade of endangered plants (Vézina 2015;Hinsley et al 2016;Olmos-Lau and Mandujano 2016), illegal aspects of the trade might simply be occurring under the radar of law enforcement in certain countries. More research to estimate the dark numbers of wild plant trafficking is certainly needed.…”
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“…The exact number of tonnes involve in illegal rare earth extraction is unknown. One way to estimate the amount of illegal material is by using evidence from missing exports (Vezina, 2015). As early as 2006 to 2008, there was a discrepancy between Chinese export statistics and corresponding foreign import statistics in the range of 20,000 to 30,000 t annually (Wubbeke, 2013).…”
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confidence: 99%