Melchior, Arne (2006) Tariffs in world seafood trade. FAO Fisheries Circular No. 1016 . Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Rome. ISBN 0429-9329
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This paper examines tariffs for seafood in 169 countries, covering most of world trade, and 143 out of 148 WTO members. Average applied tariffs for seafood in each country are mostly spread out between 0 and 30 percent, with a median at 14percentage. Weighted by the economic size of importing countries, the world average is 8-10percentage. For WTO members, only 60percentage of tariffs for seafood are bound - i.e. subject to upper bounds negotiated in the WTO. Bound tariff averages for seafood mostly range from 0 to 60percentage, with a median at 34percentage. Hence there is a considerable amount of "water in the tariffs"; as an example; a 40percentage proportional cut in bound tariffs worldwide may lead to a cut in applied tariffs of only 9percentage. Seafood tariffs are higher than tariffs for industrial goods; this is especially the case for applied tariffs but weakly true also for bound tariffs. There is some "tariff escalation" with higher tariffs for processed goods, but the evidence on this is not unambiguous. Preferential tariffs are of increasing importance in many countries, but some of the richest countries have low tariffs for all suppliers and this reduces the impact of preferences. For the EU, Japan and some developing countries, however, preferences are important. Poor countries have, on average, higher tariffs and a lower extent of tariff binding than rich countries. There is, however, great heterogeneity, so there are free traders even among the poorest.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Class Number: | 400.TAR006 |
| Keywords: | Seafood, Trade, Tariff, Seafood Industry, Fisheries Trade, FAO, World Trade Organiization (WTO), Exports, Developing Countries |
| Subjects: | Fisheries Trade |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2021 11:42 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2021 09:13 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/4217 |
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