TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tokarick,Stephen
TI  - Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451862806 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Computable General Equilibrium Models
KW  - imf
KW  - Export Sector
KW  - Export Tax
KW  - Restrictiveness
KW  - Tariff Barriers
KW  - Tariff Reductions
KW  - Botswana
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Romania
KW  - Sri Lanka
N2  - This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a country's export sector and finds that for many developing countries, the magnitude of the implicit tax is substantial-about 12 percent, on average, for the countries studied. The paper also illustrates the effects of various tariff-cutting scenarios in the Doha Round on export incentives and concludes that, in general, developing countries could increase their export earnings by reducing their own import tariffs, but countries must be careful about how these tariff reductions are achieved. For example, tariff-cutting schemes that exempt certain sectors could actually be harmful
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