A global trade, economy-wide framework is used to assess the implications of improvements in market access through quota expansion and lowering of in- and out-of-quota tariffs. Special features include recent estimates of applied tariffs and TRQs and explicit treatment of those policies in the...

This paper discusses some of the implications of liberalizing trade in processed foods in the context of the upcoming WTO trade negotiations. Simulated impacts suggest that a 30 percent reduction in farm and food tariffs would benefit U.S. farming in terms of output, net exports and income. The...

The global economic effects of eliminating certain significant categories of non-tariff measures (NTMs) are estimated in a CGE context. As a first step, a database of institutional information identifying alleged instances of NTMs for particular products and countries is constructed based on...