TY  - JOUR
AU  - Edwards,Sebastian
TI  - On Uniform Import Tariffs in Developing Countries
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3347
PY  - 1990
Y2  - May 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3347
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3347.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sebastian Edwards
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business
110 Westwood Plaza, Suite C508
Box 951481
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481
Tel: 310/206-6797
Fax: 310/206-5825
E-Mail: sebastian.edwards@anderson.ucla.edu
AB  - The purpose of this paper is to theoretically assess, from a welfare perspective, the desirability of uniform import tariffs. Since the eruption of the debt crisis, many proposals for structural reforms in the developing countries have contemplated a trade liberalization process that would create a low and uniform tariff structure. In this paper I review the literature on the subject and construct a general equilibrium model to evaluate the consequences of alternative structural adjustment policies. Throughout the analysis it is assumed that labor markets and nontradables markets are subject to some distortions.
ER  -