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How Valuable is MFN Treatment to the Philippines?

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  • Ramon L. Clarete

    (Professor of Economics, School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman)

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This paper attempts to measure the benefit to the Philippines of its availment of the WTO-MFN treatment. The methodology involves computing the reduction in the country's merchandise exports if the country loses MFN treatment, depicted in this paper as an increase by five percentage points of the tariff rates in the importing countries on such exports. The World Bank-UNCTAD's SMART computer program is used for this purpose. The forgone exports are then introduced as a shock to an applied general equilibrium model for the Philippines to calculate the income lost due to reduced exports. The result of this exercise does confirm that the country may stand to lose up to eighty percent of its export earnings. Even at a conservative loss of up to twenty percent of its exports, in consideration of the possible bilateral deals that may continue MFN treatment on selected merchandise exports, the Philippines may forgo an income of nearly eighty percent.

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  • Ramon L. Clarete, 1995. "How Valuable is MFN Treatment to the Philippines?," Philippine Review of Economics, University of the Philippines School of Economics and Philippine Economic Society, vol. 32(2), pages 171-194, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:32:y:1995:i:2:p:171-194
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