Bohlin, Jan () (Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)
Abstract
This paper presents disaggregated estimates of nominal and effective rates of tariff protection for Sweden 1885–1914. In a methodological part of the article I argue that the proper way to measure tariff protection is an output weighted average of tariff rates for a representative sample of commodities. In the empirical part of the paper, I show that Swedish tariff protection increased substantially in the period even though tariff income as a proportion of total imports decreased slightly. This seeming contradiction is explained by the restructuring of Swedish imports that took place in the period under review; the share in imports of highly protected consumer goods declined while the share of capital goods with lower protection rates and duty free raw materials and input goods increased. The result stands in contradiction to some recent views expressed in the international literature.
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Length: 33 pages Date of creation: 03 May 2005 Date of revision: Publication status: Forthcoming in Scandinavian Economic History Review. Handle: RePEc:hhs:gunhis:0001
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