Triggers, Remedies, and Tariff Cuts: Assessing the Impact of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Developing Countries
| dc.creator | Grant, Jason H. | |
| dc.creator | Meilke, Karl D. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:04:09Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:46:33Z | |
| dc.description | The WTO negotiations broke down on July 30th, 2008 because members could not bridge their differences over the operation of a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This article evaluates the latest SSM proposal using the world wheat market as our case study. Whether low-income WTO members should be allowed to breach their pre-Doha bound tariffs is a key element of our analysis. The SSM leads to sizeable additional duties but is not very trade distorting, even when pre-Doha bound rates are breached. Moreover, the extent to which low-income countries should be allowed to exceed pre-Doha bound rates depends heavily on the product under consideration, the ambition of the tariff cutting exercise, and the gap between members’ bound and applied tariffs. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.50103 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/50103/files/grantmeilke10-1annex.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/50103 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/554707 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/50103 | |
| dc.title | Triggers, Remedies, and Tariff Cuts: Assessing the Impact of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Developing Countries | |
| dc.type | Text |