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MEASURING NON‐TARIFF BARRIERS TO DIFFERENTIATED IMPORT PRODUCTS
Author(s) -
PAPILLON BENOITM.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1994.tb00435.x
Subject(s) - tariff , economics , generalization , international economics , measure (data warehouse) , econometrics , computer science , mathematics , mathematical analysis , database
Trade policy analysts frequently use the price‐gap method to measure non‐tariff barriers (NTB). A very recent example is the tariffication of NTBs following the Uruguay Round. This paper discusses the limitations of applying the price‐gap method to differentiated products and introduces a modified price‐gap method. This modified price‐gap method is a less frequently used generalization of the original one. Using the modified price‐gap method to estimate the tariff equivalent of the Canadian cheese import quotas produces a substantially lower estimate than does the original method .