Trick or Treat? Development Opportunities and Challenges in the WTO Negotiations on Industrial Tariffs
| Autor: | David Vanzetti, Santiago Fernandez de Córdoba, Sam Laird |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Economics and Econometrics
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Tariff Developing country International trade International economics Negotiation Accounting Political Science and International Relations Economics Revenue business Welfare Developed country Finance media_common Work Programme |
| Zdroj: | The World Economy. 28:1375-1400 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9701 0378-5920 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00740.x |
| Popis: | Negotiations on industrial tariffs in the current WTO work programme have turned out to be surprisingly difficult. On the one hand, developing countries, particularly in Africa, are concerned about the potential negative effect on their industrial development of developed country efforts to push them into deep cuts in applied tariffs: after the disillusion of the Uruguay Round, promises of welfare gains seem unconvincing. On the other hand, a number of the more complex formula proposals for tariff-cutting make it difficult for participants to evaluate what they have to do compared with what they hope to receive. The developing countries may achieve greater exports and welfare gains from the more ambitious proposals, but computations show that these also imply greater imports, lower tariff revenues, some labour market adjustments and reduced output in some politically sensitive sectors. Some way of assisting the developing countries in coping with these adjustments is required to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the negotiations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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