Vaillant, Marcel; Olarreaga, Marcelo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2011
When the process of trade liberalisation started in Brazil in the late 1980s, a regime of temporary trade protection was put in place. This paper describes the use of TTB by Brazilian’s authority over the last two decades. We found them to be highly concentrated in a few sectors and to heavily...