How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA

Jaime de Melo, Olivier Cadot, Carrère, Céline and Alberto Portugal-Perez
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Celine Carrere

No 5264, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper estimates the effective market access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel by combining two approaches. First, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences and rules of origin on the border prices of Mexican final goods exported to the US and of US intermediates exported to Mexico. We find that one third of the estimated rise in the border price of Mexican apparel products compensates for the cost of complying with NAFTA?s rules of origin. We also find that the price of US intermediates exported to Mexico is raised significantly by the presence of rules of origin downstream. Second, simulations from a structural model inspired by our econometric estimates, suggest little market access improvement for Mexican exporters.

Keywords: Nafta; Rules of origin; Regional integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-10
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