The Welfare Impacts of U.S. Trade Restrictions against the Canadia n Softwood Lumber Industry: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis

Roy Boyd and Kerry Krutilla

Canadian Journal of Economics, 1987, vol. 20, issue 1, 17-35

Abstract: In this paper the authors estimate the production and welfare impacts of various U.S. trade restrictions on Canadian lumber. After building a model which incorporates the regional character of the North American lumber market, the authors simulate a variety of tariffs and quotas now advocated by a number of U.S. lawmakers. They find that the tariff losses incurred by Canadian producers could be substantial, depending on the elasticity of their export supply. Voluntary restraint agreements, however, might lead to Canadian gains as high as 40 percent of their preexisting profits.

Date: 1987
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-4085%2819870 ... WIOUT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 (text/html)
only available to JSTOR subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cje:issued:v:20:y:1987:i:1:p:17-35

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.economic ... ionen/membership.php

Access Statistics for this article

Canadian Journal of Economics is currently edited by Zhiqi Chen

More articles in Canadian Journal of Economics from Canadian Economics Association Canadian Economics Association Prof. Werrner Antweiler, Treasurer UBC Sauder School of Business 2053 Main Mall Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Prof. Werner Antweiler ().