Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India

The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, they extend the "protection for sale" model to allow for different degrees of substitutability between domestically produced and imported varieties. The extension suggests that higher levels of protection toward Chinese goods can be explained by high substitutability between domestically produced goods and Chinese goods, whereas lower levels of protection toward goods imported from India can be explained by low substitutability with domestically produced goods. The data support the extension to the "protection for sale" model, which performs better than the original specification in terms of explaining Latin America's structure of protection.

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Main Authors: Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2007-04
Subjects:ANTIDUMPING, APPAREL, AVERAGE, BENCHMARK, CENTRAL AMERICA, COMMERCE, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, COMPETITIVENESS, CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE, CONSUMER SURPLUS, CONSUMERS, DEMAND FUNCTION, DOMESTIC DEMAND, DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, DUMPING, ELASTICITY, ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION, EXOGENOUS SHOCKS, EXPENDITURE, EXPORT GROWTH, EXPORTS, HOME COUNTRY, IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES, IMPORT PENETRATION, IMPORT QUOTAS, IMPORT TARIFF, IMPORT TARIFFS, IMPORTS OF TEXTILES, INDUSTRY TRADE, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, LATIN AMERICAN, LEVEL OF PROTECTION, MARKET IMPERFECTIONS, MARKET PRICE, MARKET STRUCTURE, MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION, OPEN ECONOMY, OPTIMAL TARIFF, POLITICAL ECONOMY, PREFERENTIAL TRADE, PRICE EFFECT, PRICE ELASTICITY, PROFIT FUNCTIONS, PROTECTION FOR SALE, PROTECTIONISM, PROTECTIONIST BIAS, QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS, SALE, SPECIALIZATION, SUBSTITUTION EFFECT, SUPPLY SCHEDULES, TARIFF BARRIERS, TARIFF ON IMPORTS, TARIFF REVENUES, TARIFF STRUCTURE, TARIFF STRUCTURES, TARIFFS, TRADE DATA, TRADE DEFICIT, TRADE FLOWS, TRADE INTEGRATION, TRADE POLICIES, TRADE POLICY, TRADE PROTECTION, TRADING PARTNERS, UNSKILLED LABOR, UTILITY FUNCTION, VECTOR OF TARIFFS, WAGE RATE, WELFARE FUNCTION, WORLD MARKET, WORLD MARKETS, WORLD TRADE, WTO,
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spelling dig-okr-1098670142024-08-08T17:00:04Z Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India Facchini, Giovanni Olarreaga, Marcelo Silva, Peri Willmann, Gerald ANTIDUMPING APPAREL AVERAGE BENCHMARK CENTRAL AMERICA COMMERCE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CONSUMER SURPLUS CONSUMERS DEMAND FUNCTION DOMESTIC DEMAND DOMESTIC PRODUCTION DUMPING ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EXOGENOUS SHOCKS EXPENDITURE EXPORT GROWTH EXPORTS HOME COUNTRY IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORT PENETRATION IMPORT QUOTAS IMPORT TARIFF IMPORT TARIFFS IMPORTS OF TEXTILES INDUSTRY TRADE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL TRADE LATIN AMERICAN LEVEL OF PROTECTION MARKET IMPERFECTIONS MARKET PRICE MARKET STRUCTURE MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION OPEN ECONOMY OPTIMAL TARIFF POLITICAL ECONOMY PREFERENTIAL TRADE PRICE EFFECT PRICE ELASTICITY PROFIT FUNCTIONS PROTECTION FOR SALE PROTECTIONISM PROTECTIONIST BIAS QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS SALE SPECIALIZATION SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SUPPLY SCHEDULES TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF ON IMPORTS TARIFF REVENUES TARIFF STRUCTURE TARIFF STRUCTURES TARIFFS TRADE DATA TRADE DEFICIT TRADE FLOWS TRADE INTEGRATION TRADE POLICIES TRADE POLICY TRADE PROTECTION TRADING PARTNERS UNSKILLED LABOR UTILITY FUNCTION VECTOR OF TARIFFS WAGE RATE WELFARE FUNCTION WORLD MARKET WORLD MARKETS WORLD TRADE WTO The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, they extend the "protection for sale" model to allow for different degrees of substitutability between domestically produced and imported varieties. The extension suggests that higher levels of protection toward Chinese goods can be explained by high substitutability between domestically produced goods and Chinese goods, whereas lower levels of protection toward goods imported from India can be explained by low substitutability with domestically produced goods. The data support the extension to the "protection for sale" model, which performs better than the original specification in terms of explaining Latin America's structure of protection. 2012-06-04T17:58:07Z 2012-06-04T17:58:07Z 2007-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/7503699/substitutability-protectionism-latin-americas-trade-policy-imports-china-india https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7014 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4188 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC
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topic ANTIDUMPING
APPAREL
AVERAGE
BENCHMARK
CENTRAL AMERICA
COMMERCE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
CONSUMER SURPLUS
CONSUMERS
DEMAND FUNCTION
DOMESTIC DEMAND
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EXOGENOUS SHOCKS
EXPENDITURE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORTS
HOME COUNTRY
IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES
IMPORT PENETRATION
IMPORT QUOTAS
IMPORT TARIFF
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORTS OF TEXTILES
INDUSTRY TRADE
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LATIN AMERICAN
LEVEL OF PROTECTION
MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
MARKET PRICE
MARKET STRUCTURE
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
OPEN ECONOMY
OPTIMAL TARIFF
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PRICE EFFECT
PRICE ELASTICITY
PROFIT FUNCTIONS
PROTECTION FOR SALE
PROTECTIONISM
PROTECTIONIST BIAS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
SALE
SPECIALIZATION
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT
SUPPLY SCHEDULES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF ON IMPORTS
TARIFF REVENUES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TARIFF STRUCTURES
TARIFFS
TRADE DATA
TRADE DEFICIT
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE INTEGRATION
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADING PARTNERS
UNSKILLED LABOR
UTILITY FUNCTION
VECTOR OF TARIFFS
WAGE RATE
WELFARE FUNCTION
WORLD MARKET
WORLD MARKETS
WORLD TRADE
WTO
ANTIDUMPING
APPAREL
AVERAGE
BENCHMARK
CENTRAL AMERICA
COMMERCE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
CONSUMER SURPLUS
CONSUMERS
DEMAND FUNCTION
DOMESTIC DEMAND
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EXOGENOUS SHOCKS
EXPENDITURE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORTS
HOME COUNTRY
IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES
IMPORT PENETRATION
IMPORT QUOTAS
IMPORT TARIFF
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORTS OF TEXTILES
INDUSTRY TRADE
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LATIN AMERICAN
LEVEL OF PROTECTION
MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
MARKET PRICE
MARKET STRUCTURE
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
OPEN ECONOMY
OPTIMAL TARIFF
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PRICE EFFECT
PRICE ELASTICITY
PROFIT FUNCTIONS
PROTECTION FOR SALE
PROTECTIONISM
PROTECTIONIST BIAS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
SALE
SPECIALIZATION
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT
SUPPLY SCHEDULES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF ON IMPORTS
TARIFF REVENUES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TARIFF STRUCTURES
TARIFFS
TRADE DATA
TRADE DEFICIT
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE INTEGRATION
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADING PARTNERS
UNSKILLED LABOR
UTILITY FUNCTION
VECTOR OF TARIFFS
WAGE RATE
WELFARE FUNCTION
WORLD MARKET
WORLD MARKETS
WORLD TRADE
WTO
spellingShingle ANTIDUMPING
APPAREL
AVERAGE
BENCHMARK
CENTRAL AMERICA
COMMERCE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
CONSUMER SURPLUS
CONSUMERS
DEMAND FUNCTION
DOMESTIC DEMAND
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EXOGENOUS SHOCKS
EXPENDITURE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORTS
HOME COUNTRY
IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES
IMPORT PENETRATION
IMPORT QUOTAS
IMPORT TARIFF
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORTS OF TEXTILES
INDUSTRY TRADE
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LATIN AMERICAN
LEVEL OF PROTECTION
MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
MARKET PRICE
MARKET STRUCTURE
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
OPEN ECONOMY
OPTIMAL TARIFF
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PRICE EFFECT
PRICE ELASTICITY
PROFIT FUNCTIONS
PROTECTION FOR SALE
PROTECTIONISM
PROTECTIONIST BIAS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
SALE
SPECIALIZATION
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT
SUPPLY SCHEDULES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF ON IMPORTS
TARIFF REVENUES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TARIFF STRUCTURES
TARIFFS
TRADE DATA
TRADE DEFICIT
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE INTEGRATION
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADING PARTNERS
UNSKILLED LABOR
UTILITY FUNCTION
VECTOR OF TARIFFS
WAGE RATE
WELFARE FUNCTION
WORLD MARKET
WORLD MARKETS
WORLD TRADE
WTO
ANTIDUMPING
APPAREL
AVERAGE
BENCHMARK
CENTRAL AMERICA
COMMERCE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
CONSUMER SURPLUS
CONSUMERS
DEMAND FUNCTION
DOMESTIC DEMAND
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EXOGENOUS SHOCKS
EXPENDITURE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORTS
HOME COUNTRY
IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES
IMPORT PENETRATION
IMPORT QUOTAS
IMPORT TARIFF
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORTS OF TEXTILES
INDUSTRY TRADE
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LATIN AMERICAN
LEVEL OF PROTECTION
MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
MARKET PRICE
MARKET STRUCTURE
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
OPEN ECONOMY
OPTIMAL TARIFF
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PRICE EFFECT
PRICE ELASTICITY
PROFIT FUNCTIONS
PROTECTION FOR SALE
PROTECTIONISM
PROTECTIONIST BIAS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
SALE
SPECIALIZATION
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT
SUPPLY SCHEDULES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF ON IMPORTS
TARIFF REVENUES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TARIFF STRUCTURES
TARIFFS
TRADE DATA
TRADE DEFICIT
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE INTEGRATION
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADING PARTNERS
UNSKILLED LABOR
UTILITY FUNCTION
VECTOR OF TARIFFS
WAGE RATE
WELFARE FUNCTION
WORLD MARKET
WORLD MARKETS
WORLD TRADE
WTO
Facchini, Giovanni
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Silva, Peri
Willmann, Gerald
Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
description The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, they extend the "protection for sale" model to allow for different degrees of substitutability between domestically produced and imported varieties. The extension suggests that higher levels of protection toward Chinese goods can be explained by high substitutability between domestically produced goods and Chinese goods, whereas lower levels of protection toward goods imported from India can be explained by low substitutability with domestically produced goods. The data support the extension to the "protection for sale" model, which performs better than the original specification in terms of explaining Latin America's structure of protection.
topic_facet ANTIDUMPING
APPAREL
AVERAGE
BENCHMARK
CENTRAL AMERICA
COMMERCE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
CONSUMER SURPLUS
CONSUMERS
DEMAND FUNCTION
DOMESTIC DEMAND
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EXOGENOUS SHOCKS
EXPENDITURE
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORTS
HOME COUNTRY
IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES
IMPORT PENETRATION
IMPORT QUOTAS
IMPORT TARIFF
IMPORT TARIFFS
IMPORTS OF TEXTILES
INDUSTRY TRADE
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LATIN AMERICAN
LEVEL OF PROTECTION
MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
MARKET PRICE
MARKET STRUCTURE
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
OPEN ECONOMY
OPTIMAL TARIFF
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PRICE EFFECT
PRICE ELASTICITY
PROFIT FUNCTIONS
PROTECTION FOR SALE
PROTECTIONISM
PROTECTIONIST BIAS
QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
SALE
SPECIALIZATION
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT
SUPPLY SCHEDULES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF ON IMPORTS
TARIFF REVENUES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TARIFF STRUCTURES
TARIFFS
TRADE DATA
TRADE DEFICIT
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE INTEGRATION
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADING PARTNERS
UNSKILLED LABOR
UTILITY FUNCTION
VECTOR OF TARIFFS
WAGE RATE
WELFARE FUNCTION
WORLD MARKET
WORLD MARKETS
WORLD TRADE
WTO
author Facchini, Giovanni
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Silva, Peri
Willmann, Gerald
author_facet Facchini, Giovanni
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Silva, Peri
Willmann, Gerald
author_sort Facchini, Giovanni
title Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
title_short Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
title_full Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
title_fullStr Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
title_full_unstemmed Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
title_sort substitutability and protectionism : latin america's trade policy and imports from china and india
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2007-04
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/7503699/substitutability-protectionism-latin-americas-trade-policy-imports-china-india
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7014
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