Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005

The Russian tariff structure contains over 11,000 tariff lines. Of these, a specific tariff may apply for about 1,700. Due to a new data set, this is the first paper to accurately assess tariff rates. We find that the average tariff in Russia has increased between 2001 and 2003, from about 11.5 perc...

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Main Authors:	Shepotylo, Oleksandr, Tarr, David
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid P330
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spelling	okr-10986-49432021-04-23T14:02:20Z Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005 Shepotylo, Oleksandr Tarr, David Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid P330 The Russian tariff structure contains over 11,000 tariff lines. Of these, a specific tariff may apply for about 1,700. Due to a new data set, this is the first paper to accurately assess tariff rates. We find that the average tariff in Russia has increased between 2001 and 2003, from about 11.5 percent to between 13 percent and 14.5 percent, but held steady in 2004 and 2005. This places Russia's tariffs at a level slightly higher than other middle-income countries and considerably higher than Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. Russia implemented tariff simplification in 2000-2001. Contrary to conventional wisdom on the effect of tariff simplification, the trade-weighted standard deviation of the Russian tariff increased, approximately doubling from 9.5 percent in 2001 to 18 percent in 2003, but it then fell to 15.2 percent by 2005. We show that ignoring the specific tariffs results in an underestimate of average tariff rates by about one to three percentage points and an even larger underestimate of the standard deviation. 2012-03-30T07:30:30Z 2012-03-30T07:30:30Z 2008 Journal Article Eastern European Economics 00128775 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4943 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Russian Federation
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description	The Russian tariff structure contains over 11,000 tariff lines. Of these, a specific tariff may apply for about 1,700. Due to a new data set, this is the first paper to accurately assess tariff rates. We find that the average tariff in Russia has increased between 2001 and 2003, from about 11.5 percent to between 13 percent and 14.5 percent, but held steady in 2004 and 2005. This places Russia's tariffs at a level slightly higher than other middle-income countries and considerably higher than Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. Russia implemented tariff simplification in 2000-2001. Contrary to conventional wisdom on the effect of tariff simplification, the trade-weighted standard deviation of the Russian tariff increased, approximately doubling from 9.5 percent in 2001 to 18 percent in 2003, but it then fell to 15.2 percent by 2005. We show that ignoring the specific tariffs results in an underestimate of average tariff rates by about one to three percentage points and an even larger underestimate of the standard deviation.
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title	Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005
title_short	Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005
title_full	Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005
title_fullStr	Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005
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Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005

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