China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over last few decades. In this paper, we study short-run effect of capital goods imports on China. The surge imports, which embody advanced technology, can explain rising demand for We exploit regional variations import exposure stemming from initial differences structure and instrument growth using exchange rate movements. A city at 75th...

Purpose: Based on its various uses, it produces a high level of consumption soybeans, but this is not balanced with sufficient domestic production. The increasing population Indonesia, further increases the soybean consumption. prospects for development are very good considering that demand continues to increase as increases. growth in over past 34 years quite high, line and soybean-based food ...

in order to implement vat, various countries have applied different procedures including: manufacturing products, whole sale and consumer price procedures, according to their economic structure. for iran, it is proposed that in the first step, vat be confined to manufacturing products and imports, and after some successful implementation in this earlier step, with achieved experience and knowle...

I n his 1952 A Geometry of International Trade, Nobel Laureate James Meade presented the definitive modern version of the celebrated reciprocaldemand, or offer-curve, diagram of the trade theorist. The diagram features curves depicting alternative quantities of exports and imports countries are willing to trade at all possible prices (see Figure 1). Let two countries, home and foreign, trade tw...

This paper investigates the effect of exchange rate uncertainty on the Iran’s import trade. The exchange rate ‎uncertainty series were generated utilizing the TARCH model. This model analyzes the asymmetric effects. The analysis of uncertainty and asymmetry ‎of the exchange rate shows significant TARCH ‎effect on Iran’s exchange rates‎. The findings of the study indicate negative shocks (bad ne...

Forty-six percent of U.S. imports occur between related parties. This aggregate statistic, however, obscures considerable variation in intrarm intensity across import partners as well as products. Indeed, while 74 percent of U.S. imports from Japan are intrarm, the gure for Bangladesh is just 2 percent. Likewise, trade between related parties accounted for 2 percent of U.S. imports of rubber an...

This study investigates the effects of economic policy and financial market uncertainties on Indian imports. For this purpose, we consider a panel 97 commodities imported to India during period: September 2011 January 2019. We utilize two estimation techniques, Pooled Mean Group (PMG) Cross-sectionally Augmented Distributed Lag (CS-DL), for analyses. In short-run, find that uncertainty leads mo...

This paper examines the effect of the U.S.-Mexico trade agreement under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The results suggest that U.S. agricultural imports from Mexico have been responsive to tariff rate reductions applied to Mexican products. A one percentage point decrease in tariff rates is associated with an increase in U.S. agricultural imports from Mexico by 5.31% in the f...

This paper investigates the effects of international trade in food on obesity in Mexico. We classify Mexican food imports from the U.S. into healthy and unhealthy and match these with anthropometric and food expenditure survey data. We find that exposure to imports of unhealthy foods significantly contributes to the rise of obesity in Mexico. The empirical evidence also suggests that unhealthy ...

Policymakers in Papua New Guinea want to expand the local rice industry. Currently, imports from Australia meet 99 per cent of rice demand. The Papua New Guinea government has an initial goal of reducing imports by 40 per cent. This self-sufficiency drive is fuelled by the size of the rice import bill, the desire for more jobs and the worry that it is wrong to import food. Concern over rice imp...