Anti-LDC Bias in the U.S. Tariff Structure: A Test of

Peter C Y Chow and Mitchell Kellman

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, vol. 70, issue 4, 648-53

Abstract: The existence of de facto discrimination against manufactured expor ts of developing countries (LDCs) in the U.S. tariff structure is well documented and typically "blamed" on decisions, implicit or explicit, made by the industrialized countries. The authors demonstrate that, in fact, there is no statistically-significant tariff differential attributable to LDC sourcing, exclusive of produc t characteristics, and that the recent persistence (and increase) in such measured discrimination is due to compositional shifts in LDC comparative advantage, rather than to changing tariff structures. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.

Date: 1988
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