Industry assistance data for SALTER

SALTER working paper 14

This paper by Michelle Gotch is working paper 14 for the SALTER model of the world economy.

Download this paper

Glossary

1   Introduction

2   Concepts of industry assistance 
A graphical analysis of trade linkages 
Types of industry assistance 
Tariffs 
Non-tariff barriers 
Voluntary export restraints 
Export subsidies 
Production subsidies 
Consumer subsidies

3   Estimating industry assistance 
Agriculture and food 
Import duties 
Export taxes 
Production taxes 
User taxes 
Non-food manufacturing 
Import duties 
Export taxes 
Resources 
Import duties 
Assistance to coal for the EC and Japan 
Services 
Treatment of intra - European Community Trade 
Treatment of assistance in China 
Treatment of assistance in 'rest of world'

4   Data sources 
Agriculture and food 
Non-food manufacturing 
Import duties 
Voluntary export restraints 
Production taxes 
User taxes 
Resources 
Services 
Duties and export taxes

5   Results 
Agriculture and food estimates 
Non-food manufacturing estimates 
Resource estimates 
Service estimates

6   Industry assistance in SALTER 
Incorporating assistance into databases 
Trade policy simulations

Appendix A   Industry assistance in China

Appendix B   Policy instrument concordance

Appendix C   Agriculture and food commodity concordance

Appendix D   Spreadsheets containing calculations of ad valorem tax equivalents

Appendix E   Calculating shocks and the Dunkel proposal

References