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Title:Trade Policy Reform and the Missing Revenue
Authors:Arndt, ChanningISNI
Tarp, FinnISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Journal of African Economies
Volume:17
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:131-160
Language:English
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subjects:trade policy
tariffs
public revenue
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External link:https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/1/131.full.pdf
Abstract:In many African countries, large discrepancies exist between revenues implied by published tariff rates multiplied by estimated import volumes and actual receipts. The authors develop a stylized trade model where average and marginal tariff rates diverge and incorporate insights from this model into a computable general equilibrium model of an African economy (Mozambique) to study the implications of trade policy reform. Model simulations indicate that lowering tariff rates and reducing duty-free importation in a manner that maintains official revenue benefit nearly everyone. The main exception is those who benefited from duty-free imports in the base. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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