Having made huge investments in U.S. truck production, foreign producers are not about to leave even if the truck tariff is eliminated. After all, foreign carmakers continue to invest in new U.S. production facilities even though the duty on automobiles is only 2.5 percent. The bottom line is that car...
This paper presents new estimates of the average tariff on total and dutiable U.S. imports from 1790 to 1820. These previously unavailable series are comparable to the tariff figures available from 1821 in the Historical Statistics of the United States. These early tariffs were much lower, on average, than those...
Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not received tariff protection. It reaffirms Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the tariff by the 1830s. American and British producers specialized in quite different types...
This paper uses history to explore the empirical content of two determinants of tariff policy that have a long pedigree: the Stolper-Samuelson corollary to the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, and the infant-industry argument for protection. It reports a set of world tariff facts for the 150 years between 1789 and 1938 that...
"Untouchable?" Treatment of Tariff-Based Claims In the course of many bankruptcy cases, federal regulations requiring utilities to provide their services to the public pursuant to filed tariffs frequently raise the question of the scope of the bankruptcy court's jurisdiction to treat tariff-based claims asserted against the estate. This...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 17--The import tariff on copper cathode will be kept unchanged at 1 percent as any increase could have repercussions on the downstream industry, according to Industry Minister Pinit Charusombat. The cabinet recently...
A specific tariff determines the tariff at the border by placing the amount in relation to the quantity of the good imported; perhaps the tariff might be a certain amount of dollars per bottle of wine or a certain amount of Euro per ton of steel. These types of tariffs...
Senate Unit OKs Power To Reagan on Tariffs President Reagan would be authorized by Congress to negotiate bilateral tariff and trade pacts with both Israel and Canada, under legislation approved last week by the Senate Finance Committee. The measure changes...
This paper shows that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume can be fully characterized by their effects on the generalized mean and variance of the tariff distribution. Using these tools, the paper derives new results for welfare- and market-access-improving tariff changes, which imply two 'cones of...
The FCG Common Carrier Bureau has exempted cellular carriers, which are considered dominant carriers, from filing tariffs in accordance with dominant carrier interstate tariff rules. When filing tariffs with the FCC, dominant carriers--which are able to control prices in their service area--must adhere to detailed tariff requirements. They...
A dynamic overlapping-generations model of a semi-small open economy with monopolistic competition in the goods market is constructed. A tariff increase reduces real output and employment and improves the terms of trade, both in the impact period and in the new steady state. The tariff shock has significant intergenerational distribution...
Using a newly constructed database, this paper examines the tariff-jumping response of all firm and product combinations subject to U.S. AD investigations from 1980-1990. The results strongly support the hypothesis that tariff-jumping is only a realistic option for multinational firms from industrialized countries. Because many firms subject to U.S. AD...
Industry Group Rips Reagan's Plan for Tariff-Cutting Talks WASHINGTON FNS -- Textile, apparel and fiber industry representatives Wednesday balked at Reagan Administration plans to move swiftly toward convening a new round of unrestricted multilateral tariff-cutting negotiations. They particularly objected to granting such...
The Indian government has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization WTO panel against European Commission EC facility of granting tariff preferences on textile products to Pakistan. The EC allowed tariff preferences on clothing to Pakistan in December 2001 under the EC Program of special arrangements to combat drug...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 10--A final agreement has been reached on an import tariff reform programme for 1,188 product lines relating to the petrochemcial, chemicals, rubber and textiles industries. Wisudhi Srisuphan, director-general of the Fiscal Policy...
The authors have developed a model of consumer tariff choice and demand for Internet access under three-part tariff pricing. With three-part tariffs, the provider charges an access fee that includes a usage allowance and a per-unit price for usage in excess of the allowance. Such pricing is commonly found in...
Auto suppliers aren't expecting any steel price relief from the exemptions to the steel tariff President Bush announced Thursday. The 178 exemptions, as with all exemptions to the tariff, are for specific grades of steel for specific products. I Auto suppliers...
Economic Partnership Agreement between Indonesia and Japan will lead to slashing of tariff and non-tariff barriers, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said. Indonesia and Japan have agreed to form Joint Investment Committee as an initial step toward E Economic Partnership Agreement between Indonesia and Japan will...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 26--The import tariff on copper cathode will be raised to at least 5 percent once the production output of the country's sole manufacturer, Thai Copper Industries Co meets domestic demand, according to a cabinet...
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