Trade, Economic and Welfare Impacts of the CARICOM-Canada Free Trade Agreement

Jeetendra Khadan and Roger Hosein

No 7887, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper estimates the trade, revenue, and welfare effects of the proposedCaribbean Community (CARICOM)-Canada free trade agreement (FTA) on CARICOM countries using a partial equilibrium model. The welfare analysis also takes into account the Economic Partnership Agreement, which was signed in 2008 by the CARIFORUM (CARICOM and the Dominican Republic) countries and the European Union. The revealed comparative advantage index, trade complementarity index, and transition probability matrices are used to examine the dynamics of comparative advantage for CARICOM countries' exports to Canada. The results obtained from the partial equilibrium model indicate adverse revenue and welfare effects for CARICOM member states. The results from various trade indices used do not provide evidence to suggest that an FTA between CARICOM countries and Canada can improve trade outcomes.

Keywords: trade agreements; exports; tariff revenues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10
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Working Paper: Trade, Economic and Welfare impacts of the CARICOM-Canada Free Trade Agreement (2014)
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