TY  - GEN
N2  - This paper examines the current state of intra-ASEAN trade under the preferential regime of the AFTA. It partly addresses some data problems and employs a gravity model to arrive at alternative ways of gauging the importance of preferences in the absence of data on the actual utilisation of AFTA preferential tariffs. Our results confirm the wide-spread notion that the AFTA preferential scheme is of very little consequence to intra-regional trade. However, in that limited range of products where AFTA might have an influence, preferences seem to matter only when the differential margin between the MFN and preferential tariff rates reaches a critical amount, allowing regional exporters to cover the costs of requesting preferences.
ID  - discovery18269
PB  - Centro Studi Luca d?Agliano, University of Milano
UR  - http://www.dagliano.unimi.it/publications/working-papers
CY  - Milan, Italy
T3  - Development Working Papers
A1  - Manchin, M.
A1  - Pelkmans-Balaoing, A.
KW  - ASEAN trade policy
KW  -  free trade areas
KW  -  empirical estimates of preference utilisation
TI  - Clothes without an emperor: analysis of the preferential tariffs in ASEAN
Y1  - 2007/01//
AV  - public
ER  -