New Evidence on Preference Utilization

Keck, Alexander; Lendle, Andreas

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2144118

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“…Including intra-EU trade in these statistics implies 13 See, however, Keck and Lendle (2014) for a recent challenge to the position that preferences often go unutilized.…”

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Is the WTO Passé?

Bagwell

Bown

Staiger

2016

Journal of Economic Literature

102

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The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and is now passing the baton to PTAs to finish the job? We survey a growing economics literature on international trade agreements and argue on this basis that the WTO is not passé. Rather, and subject to some caveats, our survey of research to date suggests that the WTO warrants strong support while a more cautious view of PTAs seems appropriate. (JEL F13, F14, K33, N70)

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“…Including intra-EU trade in these statistics implies 13 See, however, Keck and Lendle (2014) for a recent challenge to the position that preferences often go unutilized.…”

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Is the WTO Passé?

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Staiger

2016

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“…We compute tariffs in this way because any tariff reduction can, in principle, lead to policy substitution. Since most preferential tariff rates are fixed at zero (Keck and Lendle, 2012) and therefore cannot be reduced further, we believe that our approach is more conservative than an approach that uses MFN tariffs only.…”

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Trade Policy Substitution: Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Beverelli,

Boffa,

Keck

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Manuscript date: 29 October 2014Disclaimer: This is a working paper, and hence it represents research in progress. The opinions expressed in this paper should be attributed to its authors. They are not meant to represent the positions or opinions of the WTO and its Members and are without prejudice to Members' rights and obligations under the WTO. Any errors are attributable to the authors. Trade Policy Substitution:Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns * Cosimo BeverelliMauro Boffa Alexander Keck AbstractWe investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of non-tariff measures for tariffs both in the sample of TBT and in the sample of SPS concerns. While in the SPS sample this result holds both among developed and developing economies, in the TBT sample such 'trade policy substitution' only occurs when the country maintaining the measure at issue is economically developed.These results are consistent with our theoretical model, which predicts policy substitution between tariffs and standards in economies where meeting such standards is relatively less costly and in sectors where meeting such standards is relatively more important from the perspective of producers.

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“…The harmonized tariff system is not harmonized enough, since every country has different classification methods below a certain level of product detail. Furthermore, different rules on transfer prices and preferential rules of origin compound the difficulties firms face in global markets (Keck and Lendle, 2012). In addition, minor border frictions can be significant barriers for the Internet-enabled trade of micro firms (Melin, 2013).…”

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Firms in International Trade: Trade Policy Implications of the New New Trade Theory

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This paper explores the implications of recent developments in firm‐based trade theory and empirics for trade policy and negotiations. While traditional trade theory focused on the country, and the new trade theory of the 1980s adopted the industry as the unit for analysis, the newest theory emphasizes the role of firms and firm heterogeneity in international trade. We describe insights from this reformulation of theory and the empirical literature that illuminates it. The realities of trade as now understood show the need for a new new trade policy. Evaluating trade at the level of the firm implies that overcoming firm‐level fixed costs of trade and reducing uncertainty lead to increased trade along margins that generate the highest productivity, innovation and welfare gains. The traditional market access agenda ought now to be less important on the multilateral agenda than services, standards, trade facilitation, procurement and innovation policy. The analytical needs of a new new trade policy require new models and more access to firm‐level data to formulate and evaluate the multifaceted impacts of trade policy.

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New Evidence on Preference Utilization

Cited by 72 publications

References 18 publications

Is the WTO Passé?

Is the WTO Passé?

Trade Policy Substitution: Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Firms in International Trade: Trade Policy Implications of the New New Trade Theory

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