Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Tariffs
• Subsidies
• Local content requirements,
• Administrative Policies
• Anti-dumping policies
• Political and economic argument for
intervention
• Classical Theories supporting Free
trade
– Tariffs
– Subsidies
– Import Quotas
– Voluntary export restraints
– Local content requirements
– Administrative policies
– Antidumping duties
TARIFFS
• A tax levied on imports
• Two categories
– Specific tariff & Ad valorem tariffs
• Specific Tariffs
– are levied as a fixed charge for each unit of a good
imported
• Ad valorem tariffs
– are levied as a proportion of the value of the imported
good
• A tariff raises the cost of imported products.