Measuring trade costs and gains from trade facilitation in the Philippines

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This paper provides estimates of trade costs of the Philippines with her key trading partners, and develops a framework for assessing their welfare cost. With tariff restrictions reduced significantly following several rounds of multilateral and regional trade negotiations, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) have emerged as key in slowing down trade flows. Given the proliferation of NTMs in the world today, chances are some of those are disguised NTBs. More importantly however, the inefficiencies associated with implementing legitimate NTMs such as the SPS on agricultural imports become unnecessary barriers to trade. This is the fat in trade costs that need to be eliminated through trade facilitation, while policy reforms would have to deal with redundant NTMs, whose claim to resources adds to the cost imposed by inefficient implementation of legitimate NTMs. This paper came up with a CGE model analytical structure for assessing the gains of lowering trade costs.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UPSE Discussion Paper ; No. 2017-06

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Integration ; Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
• Subject: Trade costs ; Economic development ; Trade policy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Clarete, Ramon L.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of the Philippines, School of Economics (UPSE)
• (where): Quezon City
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202527
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET