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External Tariff Liberalization in CARICOM »
Source: External Tariff Liberalization in CARICOM : A Commodity-Level Analysis
Volume/Issue: 2008/33
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Azim Sadikov
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2008
ISBN: 9781451868951
Keywords: external tariff, CARICOM, tariff rate, tariff rates, member imports,
This paper estimates the impact of the tariff liberalization in four largest CARICOM countries (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago) on their trade flows. I trace changes in the product-line imports...
Vietnam »
Source: Vietnam : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2007/385
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 December 2007
ISBN: 9781451840414
Keywords: tariff revenues, tariff rates, mfn tariffs, import demand, tariff reductions, Viet Nam,
This Selected Issues paper assesses the impact of Vietnam's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. It describes the main terms of Vietnam's accession as regards trade in goods and services, and uses a partial eq...
Vietnam: Selected Issues »
Source: Vietnam : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2007/385
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 December 2007
ISBN: 9781451840414
Keywords: tariff revenues, tariff rates, mfn tariffs, import demand, tariff reductions, Viet Nam,
This Selected Issues paper assesses the impact of Vietnam's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. It describes the main terms of Vietnam's accession as regards trade in goods and services, and uses a partial eq...
Vietnam: Selected Issues »
Source: Vietnam : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2007/385
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 December 2007
ISBN: 9781451840414
Keywords: tariff revenues, tariff rates, mfn tariffs, import demand, tariff reductions, Viet Nam,
This Selected Issues paper assesses the impact of Vietnam's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. It describes the main terms of Vietnam's accession as regards trade in goods and services, and uses a partial eq...
Temporary Import Tariffs, the Real Exchange Rate and the Current Account* »
Source: Temporary Import Tariffs, the Real Exchange Rate and the Current Account
Volume/Issue: 1988/80
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 August 1988
ISBN: 9781451955347
Keywords: real exchange rate, exchange rate, exchange rates, import tariffs, import tariff
In this paper a general equilibrium intertemporal model with optimizing consumers and producers is developed to analyze how the imposition of a temporary import tariff affects the path of real exchange rates and th...
Tariffs and the Macroeconomy »
Source: Tariffs and the Macroeconomy : Some Empirical Evidence
Volume/Issue: 1989/70
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 September 1989
ISBN: 9781451960266
Keywords: tariff rate, tariff rates, trade flows, terms of trade, bilateral trade
This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of tariffs. Existing theoretical models do not provide clear-cut predictions concerning the co-movement between unilateral tariff changes and a set of macroeconomic vari...
Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers »
Source: Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers : A Cross-Country Investigation
Volume/Issue: 2001/216
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Qing Wang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2001
ISBN: 9781451954692
Keywords: Trade-Barriers, Tariff, non-tariff trade barriers, trade barriers, trade protection, bilateral trade, trade flows, tariff rates, Econometric Modeling,
A comprehensive empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. We first present a statistical summary of the status of global trade protection. Then, ba...
Outsourcing Tariff Evasion »
Source: Outsourcing Tariff Evasion : A New Explanation for Entrepôt Trade
Volume/Issue: 2005/102
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2005
ISBN: 9781451861211
Keywords: Tax Evasion, Indirect Trade, tariff rate, tariff rates, indirect export, indirect exports, export rate, Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue,
Traditional explanations for indirect trade carried out through an entrepôt have focused on savings in transport costs and on the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative...
Tariff-Tax Reforms in Large Economies »
Source: Tariff-Tax Reforms in Large Economies
Volume/Issue: 2012/139
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Juha Tervala , and Giovanni Ganelli
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
ISBN: 9781475503944
Keywords: Tariff-tax reform, imperfect competition, trade negotiations, open economy macroeconomics, tax reform, consumption tax, tariff rate
This paper studies tariff-tax reforms in a calibrated two-region global New Keynesian model composed of a developing and an advanced region. In our baseline calibration, a revenue-neutral reform that lowers tariffs...
Trade in the WAEMU »
Source: Trade in the WAEMU : Developments and Reform Opportunities
Volume/Issue: 2008/68
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Hans Weisfeld , and Manuela Goretti
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2008
ISBN: 9781451869309
Keywords: WAEMU, Economic Partnership Agreement, trade liberalization, trade diversion, tariff revenue, tariff rates, trade regime,
This paper provides an overview of trade reform in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) since 1996 and a quantitative assessment of potential effects on trade patterns and tariff revenue of the curr...