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Cotton --- Cotton --- production factors --- production factors --- Yield increases --- Market economies --- Market economies --- Domestic markets --- Domestic markets --- Trade liberalization --- Trade liberalization --- Market research --- Market research --- Support measures --- Support measures --- Burkina Faso --- Burkina Faso --- Cote d'Ivoire. --- Cote d'Ivoire --- Mali --- Mali --- Benin. --- Benin

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This paper provides an update on the main elements of the reform agenda concerning the CEMAC trade regime as well as a tentative quantitative assessment of selected effects on tariff revenues and trade patterns. Notwithstanding data limitations, the key messages from the analysis are as follows. First, there is a need for a renewed political commitment to regional integration. In addition, key measures for improving compliance with the requirements for a customs union need to be introduced, including limiting tariff exemptions, phasing out remaining surcharges, strengthening the determination of products' country origin, and enhancing customs administration. There is also a need to improve transportation infrastructure and organization. Finally, there is a strong case for tariff reduction, with or without an EPA. Trade liberalization would help boost economic growth and poverty alleviation and limit risks of trade diversion with an EPA. Tariff reform should be complemented by improvements in domestic revenue mobilization.

Exports and Imports --- Taxation --- Trade: General --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- International economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Tariffs --- Imports --- Exports --- Trade liberalization --- Trade policy --- Tariff --- Commercial policy --- Cameroon --- Foreign trade regulation --- Africa, Central --- Commerce. --- Commercial policy. --- Economic integration.

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This report aims to answer two major questions: (1) How beneficial are the trade preferences provided to developing countries; and (2) what are the implications of possible erosion of these benefits under multilateral trade liberalisation? The report focuses on trade preferences provided by the so-called Quad countries (Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States) because they have some of the world’s highest tariffs on agricultural commodities. Findings from this study suggest that although preferential margins will be eroded with multilateral liberalisation, this may be a problem only for certain countries and within specific sectors, and that factors not related to preferential trade schemes may be limiting the exports of the least-developed countries (LDC).

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Foreign trade policy --- International economic relations --- Free trade --- Globalization --- 382.10 --- 382.11 --- 382.33 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Free trade and protection --- Trade, Free --- Trade liberalization --- International trade --- Economic aspects --- Theorieën van internationale en interregionale handel: algemeenheden. Comparatieve voordelen --- Theorie van het internationale evenwicht. Economische onafhankelijkheid van een natie. Globalisering. Mondialisering --- Vrijhandel

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This paper considers the effects of trade policy-tariffs and quotas-when importing is done by competitive traders who are identical ex ante but differ ex post. We show that the standard equivalence results no longer hold and the conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head: quotas are not as bad for welfare as previously believed, while tariffs may restrict trade by more than originally intended. Furthermore, the allocation of property rights (quota licenses) has real effects beyond the distribution of rents; this, in turn, has implications for the effects of corruption on welfare.

Exports and Imports --- Taxation --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General --- Trade: General --- International economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Tariffs --- Trade liberalization --- Imports --- Trade policy --- Import quotas --- Taxes --- International trade --- Tariff --- Commercial policy --- Nigeria --- Non-tariff trade barriers --- Econometric models.