Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations

U.N. Commodity Trade (COMTRADE) statistics have major shortcomings for many analyses relating to tariffs and other trade barriers. The use of a cost-insurance-freight valuation base for these data results in an upward (sometimes severe) bias in the implied dutiable value of imports for countries tha...

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Main Author:	Yeats, Alexander J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:	customs equilibrium foreign trade foreign trade zones general equilibrium import statistics imports international trade international trade oommission multilateral trade negotiations tariff changes tariff line trade barrier trade barriers trade creation trade data trade models trade negotiations trade restrictions world trade
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19083

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spelling	okr-10986-190832021-04-23T14:03:51Z Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations Yeats, Alexander J. customs equilibrium foreign trade foreign trade zones general equilibrium import statistics imports international trade international trade oommission multilateral trade negotiations tariff changes tariff line trade barrier trade barriers trade creation trade data trade models trade negotiations trade restrictions world trade U.N. Commodity Trade (COMTRADE) statistics have major shortcomings for many analyses relating to tariffs and other trade barriers. The use of a cost-insurance-freight valuation base for these data results in an upward (sometimes severe) bias in the implied dutiable value of imports for countries that utilize free-on-board tariffs. This problem can be greatly exacerbated by the “general” trade system procedure used to compile the U.N. statistics, as opposed to the “special” trade practice used for the World Trade Organization Integrated Database. U.S. International Trade Commission statistics show that the combined effects of these biases can reach magnitudes that preclude the legitimate use of COMTRADE for many tariff-trade simulations or related trade negotiations. 2014-07-30T20:32:17Z 2014-07-30T20:32:17Z 2012-11 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X 10.1093/wber/lhr053 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19083 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article UNITED STATES
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description	U.N. Commodity Trade (COMTRADE) statistics have major shortcomings for many analyses relating to tariffs and other trade barriers. The use of a cost-insurance-freight valuation base for these data results in an upward (sometimes severe) bias in the implied dutiable value of imports for countries that utilize free-on-board tariffs. This problem can be greatly exacerbated by the “general” trade system procedure used to compile the U.N. statistics, as opposed to the “special” trade practice used for the World Trade Organization Integrated Database. U.S. International Trade Commission statistics show that the combined effects of these biases can reach magnitudes that preclude the legitimate use of COMTRADE for many tariff-trade simulations or related trade negotiations.
format	Journal Article
author	Yeats, Alexander J.
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title	Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations
title_short	Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations
title_full	Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations
title_fullStr	Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations
title_full_unstemmed	Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations
title_sort	implications of comtrade compilation practices for trade barrier analyses and negotiations
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations

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