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Title: Liberalizing EC Imports of Footwear from Eastern Europe

Author(s): Zhen Kun Wang and L. Alan Winters

Publication Date: September 1993

Keyword(s): Eastern Europe, EC, Europe Agreements, Footwear, Quantitative Restrictions and Trade Liberalization

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: We present a simple computable model of EC footwear production and trade coupled with a rudimentary production model for Eastern Europe. We simulate the liberalization of EC footwear imports from Eastern Europe as planned under the so-called Europe Agreements. We find that if Eastern Europe can improve its productivity modestly both East and West can gain significantly from liberalization. These gains are concentrated on the EC-North, however, while the major footwear producing areas of the EC lose. The benefits of liberalization to Eastern Europe do not depend strongly on their gaining preferential access to the EC -- they persist even if all suppliers to the EC have free access.

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Wang, Z and Winters, L. 1993. 'Liberalizing EC Imports of Footwear from Eastern Europe'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=836