Citation

Discussion Paper Details

Please find the details for DP2480 in an easy to copy and paste format below:

Full Details   |   Bibliographic Reference

Full Details

Title: Deepening of Regional Integration and Multilateral Trade Agreements

Author(s): Eric W Bond, Costas Syropoulos and L. Alan Winters

Publication Date: August 2000

Keyword(s): Europe '1992', Kemp-Wan Tariff Adjustments, Regional Integration and Sustainable Tariff Agreements

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: We construct a three-country, two-bloc, multi-product trade model in which tariff agreements between customs union members are binding whereas inter-bloc tariff agreements are self-enforcing. Our main objective is to explore how the liberalization of trade between customs union members (i.e. the deepening of regional integration) affects the sustainability of tariff agreements with the rest of the world (ROW). We derive conditions under which Kemp-Wan (1976) adjustments in the external tariffs of union members result in self-enforcing tariff agreements with ROW and then use these adjustments to evaluate the general tariff-setting incentives of the two trading blocs.

For full details and related downloads, please visit: https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2480

Bibliographic Reference

Bond, E, Syropoulos, C and Winters, L. 2000. 'Deepening of Regional Integration and Multilateral Trade Agreements'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2480