eprintid: 18269 rev_number: 28 eprint_status: archive userid: 601 dir: disk0/00/01/82/69 datestamp: 2009-11-09 12:20:36 lastmod: 2015-07-23 09:38:03 status_changed: 2009-11-09 12:20:35 type: working_paper metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Manchin, M. creators_name: Pelkmans-Balaoing, A. creators_id: MMANC29 title: Clothes without an emperor: analysis of the preferential tariffs in ASEAN ispublished: pub subjects: 17100 keywords: ASEAN trade policy, free trade areas, empirical estimates of preference utilisation abstract: 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. date: 2007-01 publisher: Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, University of Milano official_url: http://www.dagliano.unimi.it/publications/working-papers oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green lyricists_name: Manchin, M lyricists_id: MMANC29 full_text_status: public series: Development Working Papers number: 223 place_of_pub: Milan, Italy citation: Manchin, M.; Pelkmans-Balaoing, A.; (2007) Clothes without an emperor: analysis of the preferential tariffs in ASEAN. (Development Working Papers 223). Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, University of Milano: Milan, Italy. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/18269/1/18269.pdf