Preferences, rent destruction and multilateral liberalization: The building block effect of CUSFTA

Tobias Ketterer (), Daniel Bernhofen () and Chris Milner

Journal of International Economics, 2014, vol. 92, issue 1, 63-77

Abstract: If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can free policy makers to be more aggressive in multilateral tariff cuts. We argue that the Canadian–US free trade agreement (CUSFTA) provides an ideal policy experiment to link this mechanism to the data. Exploring the determinants of Canada's tariff cuts at the 8-digit HS product level, we find that CUSFTA acted as an additional driver of Canadian multilateral tariff reductions during the Uruguay Round.

Keywords: Preferences; Rent destruction; Multilateral liberalization; CUSFTA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.10.011

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