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N°195 |
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| November 2000 |
| How is Trade Protectionism
to be Measured? |
Antoine Bouët
Estelle Dhont-Peltrault |
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| The launching of new multilateral trade negotiations
requires protectionism by different countries to be measured as precisely as possible.
However, trade policy employs complex instruments, whose nature varies strongly,
and which can lead to divergent assessments, making it very difficult for overall
protectionism to be measured. New forms of assessment, which seek to measure the
overall economic impact of protectionism, and which are based on examining the
distortions induced by trade policies, provide an interesting approach to trade
analysis. They generally put more traditional measures of protectionism, such
as customs duties or the frequency of non-tariff barriers, into a more relative
perspective. |
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