A (more) systematic exploration of the trade effect of product-specific rules of origin

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dc.contributor.authorGOURDON, Julien
dc.contributor.authorGOURDON, Karin
dc.contributor.authorDE MELO, Jaime
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-13T14:28:33Z
dc.date.available2023-04-13T14:28:33Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractRules of Origin (RoO) are critical components of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). They are designed to stop products coming into a PTA through the partner that applies the lowest tariff – a phenomenon known as trade deflection. While RoO are necessary, complex RoO may undo the benefits of trade agreements. Using a novel database of RoO, this paper evaluates the incidence and restrictiveness of different types of Product-Specific Rules of Origin (PSRs) across 128 reciprocal PTAs for the period 1990 - 2015. Results, based on a structural gravity model controlling for confounding factors, display wide heterogeneity across different categories of PSRs attached to preferential margins, with more flexible PSRs associated with a significantly stronger trade effect compared to more restrictive ones where exporters do not have a choice among PSRs or have to satisfy multiple PSRs. A simulation exercise reveals that a radical simplification reform leading to the adoption of flexible PSRs providing alternative choices to prove origin would have increased global trade under PTAs on average by between 2.7 and 4 percent during the sample period.en
dc.description.sponsorshipJulien Gourdon and Jaime de Melo acknowledge financial support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche of the French government through the program “Investissements d’avenir” (ANR-10-LABX-14-01).en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75494
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRSCen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2023/26en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Governance Programme-500en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Global Economics]en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectRules of originen
dc.subjectProduct-specific rules of originen
dc.subjectRegime-wide rules of originen
dc.subjectCompliance costsen
dc.subjectF1en
dc.subjectF14en
dc.subjectF15en
dc.titleA (more) systematic exploration of the trade effect of product-specific rules of originen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
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