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Quantifying The Value Of Us Tariff Preferences For Developing Countries, Judith M. Dean, John Wainio
Quantifying The Value Of Us Tariff Preferences For Developing Countries, Judith M. Dean, John Wainio
Judith M Dean
In recent debates, trade preference erosion has been viewed by some as damaging to developing countries, and by others as insignificant, except in a few cases. However, little data have been available to back either view. The objective of this paper is to improve our measures of the size, utilization and value of all US non-reciprocal trade preference programs, in order to shed some light on this debate. Highly disaggregated data are used to quantify the margins, coverage, utilization and value of nonagricultural and agricultural tariff preferences, for all beneficiary countries in the US regional programs and in the GSP. …