Tariff Escalation and Invasive Species Damages

Anh Tu, John Beghin () and Estelle Gozlan

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We investigate the interface between trade and invasive species (IS) risk, focusing on the existing tariff escalation in agro-forestry product markets and its implication for IS risk. Tariff escalation in processed agro-forestry products exacerbates the risk of IS by biasing trade flows toward increased trade of primary commodity flows and against processed-product trade. We show that reducing tariff escalation by lowering the tariff on processed goods increases allocative efficiency and reduces the IS externality, a win-win situation. We also identify policy menus for trade reforms involving tariffs on both raw input and processed goods, leading to win-win situations.

Keywords: agro-forestry products; exotic pest; international trade; invasive species; tariff escalation; trade flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-10-01
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Published in Ecological Economics, November 2008, vol. 67 no. 4, pp. 619-629

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