Tariffs, product standards, and national treatment at the WTO

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI:10.1111/ecin.13227

Difei Geng

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Abstract

This paper develops an oligopolistic model with consumption externalities to study (i) the policy interaction between tariffs and product standards; (ii) how such interaction may affect the welfare justification of national treatment (NT) in product standards. Absent NT, tariff reductions can lead to more discriminatory standards against foreign firms. Imposing NT eliminates discrimination but can induce higher tariffs which tend to undermine efficiency. As a result, the welfare justification of NT is stronger when tariffs are constrained. These findings suggest that the World Trade Organization's success in tariff liberalization can strengthen the case for its NT-based approach to product standards.

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世贸组织的关税、产品标准和国民待遇

本文建立了一个具有消费外部性的寡头垄断模型，以研究：(i) 关税与产品标准之间的政策互动；(ii) 这种互动如何影响产品标准中国民待遇（NT）的福利合理性。在没有国民待遇的情况下，降低关税会导致对外国企业的标准更具歧视性。实行国民待遇可以消除歧视，但会导致关税提高，而关税提高往往会损害效率。因此，当关税受到限制时，实行非关税壁垒的福利理由更充分。这些研究结果表明，世界贸易组织在关税自由化方面的成功可以加强其基于非关税的产品标准方法。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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