Title Do South-South trade agreements increase trade? : commodity-level evidence from COMESA / prepared by Anna Maria Mayda and Chad Steinberg

Published [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (35 pages) : illustrations Series IMF working paper ; WP/07/40. Contents I. Introduction; II. Literature; III. Trade Creation and Trade Diversion; IV. Data; V. Empirical Strategy and Results; A. Benchmark Estimators; B. Difference-in-Difference Estimator; C. Robustness Checks; D. Trade Diversion; VI. Conclusions; Figures; 1. Uganda: Imports and Tariff Revenue (percent of GDP),1986-2003; 2. Uganda: Imports from Developing Countries (percent of GDP),1986-2003; Tables; 1. Summary Statistics for Uganda vis-à-vis COMESA Countries (1994-2003); 2. Summary Statistics for Uganda vis-à-vis non-COMESA Countries (1994-2003) 3. Pattern of Protection in Uganda in 1994 and 2003 Under the Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA in 1994 and COMESA in 2003)4. Pattern of Protection in Uganda in 1994 and 2003 vis-à-vis the Rest of the World (MFN Tariff Rates); 5. Estimates Based on Uganda Imports in 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003; 6. Estimates Based on Uganda Imports in 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003; 7. Robustness Checks; 8. Estimates of Trade Diversion Based on Uganda Imports from Non-COMESA Countries in 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003; Appendix Tables I. Uganda's Preferential Tariff Rates by 2-digit 1996 HS Codes, 1994 and 2003II. Uganda's MFN Tariff Rates by 2-digit 1996 HS Codes, 1994 and 2003; III. Uganda's Imports by Country of Origin, 1994 and 2003; References Summary South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade patterns. Specifically, it estimates the impact of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) on Uganda's imports between 1994 and 2003. Detailed import and tariff data at the 6-digit harmonized system level are used for more than 1,000 commodities. Based on a difference-in-difference estimation strategy, the paper finds that-in contrast to evidence from aggregate statistics-COMESA's preferential tariff liberalization has not considerably increased Uganda's trade with member countries, on average across sectors. The effect, however, is heterogeneous across sectors. Finally, the paper finds no evidence of trade-diversion effects Notes "February 2007." At head of title: African and Research Departments Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa SUBJECT Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa fast Subject Imports -- Uganda Imports -- Uganda -- Econometric models Trade blocs -- Africa, East Trade blocs -- Africa, Southern Trade blocs -- Econometric models Commerce Imports Imports -- Econometric models Trade blocs Trade blocs -- Econometric models SUBJECT Uganda -- Commerce -- Africa, East Uganda -- Commerce -- Africa, Southern Africa, East -- Commerce -- Uganda Africa, Southern -- Commerce -- Uganda Africa, Southern -- Commerce -- Africa, East Africa, East -- Commerce -- Africa, Southern Subject Africa, East Southern Africa Uganda Form Electronic book Author Steinberg, Chad International Monetary Fund. Research Department. International Monetary Fund. African Department ISBN 1282391674 9781282391673 9781451910575 1451910576 9781451866049 1451866046

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