Journal of Political Economy Vol. 79 No. 1 1971
The Use of Effective Tariffs
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Abstract
Citations are given to show that since 1888 some people have understood the idea of effective tariffs. For fourteen studies on twenty-six countries done during the last five years, one finds a rank correlation of .95 between the height of a nation's average effective tariff and the height of the nation's average nominal tariff. Looking at the effective tariff and the nominal tariff for various industries within a country, one finds both a significant regression between them and a rank correlation between them of over .70 for twenty-three of the twenty-six countries. I speculate on reasons for these results.
- DOI
- 10.1086/259728
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 128-141
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref