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Title: Trade-Inducing Quality Standards for Used Durables

Author(s): Sofronis Clerides and Costas Hadjiyiannis

Publication Date: January 2005

Keyword(s): durable goods, quality standards, trade in used goods and used durables

Programme Area(s): Industrial Organization and International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: We construct a theoretical framework to study the impact of asymmetric quality standards on used durable goods on trade flows, profits and consumer welfare. We show that asymmetry in quality standards generates trade in used goods from high to low standard countries while at the same time reducing trade in new goods. The industry in the exporting country benefits from this change while consumers lose out. Consumers in the importing country are the biggest beneficiaries, but domestic industry is hurt. These results suggest that quality standards on used goods are a powerful policy tool whose use should be monitored by the WTO.

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Clerides, S and Hadjiyiannis, C. 2005. 'Trade-Inducing Quality Standards for Used Durables'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4838