A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF TRADE WITH DECREASING TRANSPORT COSTS

M. Shahid Alam ()

International Economic Journal, 1991, vol. 5, issue 4, pages 63-69

Abstract: Decreasing transport costs are incorporated into the standard partial equilibrium analysis of trade by allowing the divergence -- introduced by transport costs -- between export and import price to decrease with the volume of trade. When the excess demand (supply) curve is steeper than the long run average cost curve for imports (exports), we observe that an import (export) tariff raises (lowers) the domestic price by an amount exceeding the tariff. Further, when the excess demand (supply) curve is less steep than the long run average cost curve for imports (exports), the possibility exists that an import (export) tariff may lower (raise) the domestic price. These results lead to the important conclusion that tariffs cannot be used as measures of nominal protection across industries. [F10]

Date: 1991
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