Trade Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization in Pakistan

Khalil Ahmad, Safdar Ali and Amjad Ali

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Abstract: This study attempts to investigate the effect of free trade on trade tax revenue in case of Pakistan during 1972-2014. For time series analysis, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model has been used for examining the long run co-integration among the variables and Vector Error-Correction model is used for short run dynamics of the variables. The empirical results show that quantitative trade restriction is positively linked with trade tax revenue. On the basis of empirical findings, this study suggests that trade liberalization has negative impact on trade tax revenue. We improve the volume of average tariff rate; it may cause to increase the trade tax revenue for Pakistan in both short run and long run.

Keywords: Trade liberalization; Tariff rate; Trade tax revenue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 H2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05
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