Wei, Shang-Jin; Subramanian, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports … joined after the Uruguay Round have benefited from increased imports. Similarly, there have been asymmetric effects among … sectors, with WTO membership associated with substantially greater imports in sectors where barriers are low. These results …