eprintid: 3536 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/00/35/36 datestamp: 2012-01-18 06:03:29 lastmod: 2021-04-02 15:36:38 status_changed: 2012-01-18 06:03:29 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Bergès, Fabian creators_name: Monier-Dilhan, Sylvette creators_idrefppn: 061187860 creators_idrefppn: 234183160 title: Trade Policy Reform: How to win wide-ranging support? ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: This article analyzes the effects of international trade policies on an imperfect competitive domestic market, taking into account not only consumers but also upstream and downstream firms. We first study the impact of a classic import tax decrease and we find that upstream firms are harmed and domestic fiscal revenues may decrease with such a policy. We then look at the effect of an increase in non-tariff barriers, seen as the lowest degree of substitutability between the domestic good and the imported good. The result is an improvement in each agent’s situation, since international competition becomes less fierce. Last, we show that market conditions may exist such that a coupled policy (import tax decrease and non-tariff barrier increase) makes every agent better off. This can explain why we observe a proliferation of domestic standards at national level in order to back up lower tariff negotiations by governments. date: 2010-12 date_type: published publisher: TSE Working Paper official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/23810 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE subjectsJEL: JEL_F12 subjectsJEL: JEL_F13 subjectsJEL: JEL_L14 subjectsJEL: JEL_L20 view_date_year: 2010 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper series: TSE Working Paper volume: 10-205 book_title: TSE Working Paper oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:23810 harvester_local_overwrite: oai_set harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: site harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn oai_lastmod: 2015-07-31T18:00:02Z oai_set: tse oai_set: ut1c site: ut1 citation: Bergès, Fabian and Monier-Dilhan, Sylvette (2010) Trade Policy Reform: How to win wide-ranging support? TSE Working Paper, n. 10-205 document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/3536/1/10-205.pdf