A Review of Studies of Sectoral Impacts of Bilateral and Multilateral Trade Liberalization on Canada

The Paper Attempts to Summarize and Comment Upon the Hypotheses, General Features, Methodologies, and Estimates of Sectoral Effects of Various Forms of Bilateral (Canada-U.S.) and Multilateral Trade Liberalization As Found in More Recent General Equilibrium Analyses and Federal and Provincial Government Studies. a Number of Other Individual Studies Are Also Reviewed When They Study Directly the Impact of Freer Trade in a Particular Sector. This Paper Also Contains a Number of Suggestions Which Aim to Make Both the General Equilibrium Modelling of Trade and the Sectoral Studies More Useful, for Currently Available Results Are Widely Divergent in Part Because of Lacunae and Differences Identified in This Paper.