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Is Erosion of Tariff Preferences a Serious Concern?

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Antoine Bouet
Lionel Fontagne
Sebastien Jean

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This working paper aims to clarify the specific issues raised by trade preferences, in particular non-reciprocal ones, as they pertain to the Doha round. We evaluate the extent of tariff preferences through both a measure of the "true" preferential margin and an assessment of tariff-rate quota rents. We find that the threat of preference erosion following the Doha round is real, insofar as trade preferences are now playing a key role in the world trading system, and in particular in the pro-poor policies undertaken by rich countries. Although the problem is focused on a handful of products and on a limited number of countries, our analysis suggests that the magnitude of forthcoming difficulties for poor countries could be significant in many cases.

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Keywords: Preferential trade arrangements (PTAs); erosion; Doha development agenda; Computable General Equilibirum (CGE) model; international trade; trade negotiations; WTO; agriculture; trade policy;

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F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies
F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade
O19 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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