Has the CETS list of products for the EAC generated intra-export trade

Isaac Shinyekwa, Miriam Katunze () and Martin Luther Munu

No 253564, Policy Briefs from Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC)

Abstract: The study, aimed at establishing whether the protection given to the list of sensitive products since 2005: has increased the EAC regional capacity to produce, reduced the importation of the same products from the rest of the world, increased intra-EAC trade, and improved welfare. Results suggest that although intra-EAC trade increased since 2005, the imports of the same products from outside the region even increased more creating a huge negative trade balance. This suggests that there is deficiency in regional capacity to produce these products within the bloc, therefore effective protection was not adequately achieved by the high tariffs imposed on the sensitive list of products.

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade; Labor and Human Capital; Marketing; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 2016-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.253564

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