The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley

No 11216, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major economies that collectively represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have more liberal trading regimes than others? Within countries, which industries receive the most import protection? How do trade policies change over time? Do countries discriminate among their trading partners when setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? Our analysis documents the extent of cross-sectional heterogeneity in applied commercial policy across countries, their economic sectors, and their trading partners, over time. We conclude that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy.

Keywords: Tariffs; Mfn; Preferences; Quantitative restrictions; Temporary trade barriers; Antidumping; Safeguards; Non-tariff barriers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 F13 F14 F15 F3 H21 H23 H25 K33 L5 N4 N70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04
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