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Tariffs, Then and Now: Lecture in Honour of the Late Bert Kelly

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While much of the Australian trade liberalisation for which Bert Kelly fought has been achieved, there are still areas of highly selective protection, particularly in textiles, clothing, footwear and passenger motor vehicles. An analysis is made of arguments for continued assistance which are advanced in some quarters: that Australia should not reduce its barriers unless other countries also do so and that we are ‘leading the pack’; that frontier barriers should not be reduced unless microeconomic reform in Australia is acccelerated; that because other countries may exclude automobiles from their APEC commitments, so should Australia; that small tariffs don’t matter; and that local pain overshadows national gain. Bert Kelly would have found many of the arguments all too familiar.

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  • Richard Snape, 1997. "Tariffs, Then and Now: Lecture in Honour of the Late Bert Kelly," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 30(2), pages 144-154, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:30:y:1997:i:2:p:144-154
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00013
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    1. Tcha, MoonJoong & Kuriyama, Takashi, 2003. "Protection policy under economies of scale -- the welfare effects of tariffs on the Australian automotive industry," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 25(6-7), pages 655-672, September.

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