Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation

Unilateral Liberalisation in a Multilateral World

A CGE Analysis of the Short-run Welfare Effects of Tariff Liberalisation in Uganda

The promotion of human welfare is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges of economic development. To achieve this, many developing countries adopted trade liberalisation in the late 1980s, premised on the theoretical evidence based on the definitive Heckscher-Ohlin theory which predicts gains for the poor. The empirical support for this theory, however, is at best mixed. This paper employs ...

Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade

that restrict trade between countries in agricultural commodities. Many of these policies are now subject to important disciplines under the 1994 GATT agreement that is administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The paper is organized as follows. First, tariffs, import quotas, and tariff rate quotas are discussed. Then, a series of non-tariff barriers to trade are examined, including v...

Filed Tariff Doctrine Allows Sprint's Unilateral Amendment to Fridays Free Agreements

Introduction Suzanne Cahnmann's class action against Sprint Corporation appeared to be a relatively straightforward consumer claim, brought in Illinois state court, for breach of contract, fraud and injunctive relief. The complaint, after all, followed Sprint's enactment of unilateral changes to contracts entered into with long-distance customers; changes which drastically reduced promised savi...

TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes