Transportation and trade interactions: a trade facilitation perspective

Jeronimo Carballo, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus

Chapter 14 in Handbook of International Trade and Transportation, 2018, pp 422-450 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Trade facilitation policies aim to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, the authors discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the provision of transportation services. In addition, they make use of a particular policy change, an upgrade to a new transit trade regime, to illustrate the many direct and indirect linkages between trade facilitation and transportation. These multiple connections imply that a well-functioning transportation sector is important in realizing the full potential of trade facilitation policies. The authors’ conceptual and empirical analyses show that, despite an increase in demand for transportation services, the effect of trade facilitation on freight rates and the underlying transportation sector is far from obvious. This calls for future research to examine equilibrium adjustment channels to trade facilitation policies in the transportation sector.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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