Customs

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.01.011

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“…Besides common tariffs, an important aspect of the customs union is the implementation of common and streamlined procedures across the union regardless of where in the EU the goods are declared. Reduced time, homogeneity of rules, and lower uncertainty can be significant factors in boosting trade relationships (Hummels et al (2007); Hummels and Schaur (2013); Martincus et al (2015); Handley and Limao (2015)). …”

Section: A2 Trade Policiesmentioning

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Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement

Caliendo¹,

Opromolla²,

Parro³

et al. 2017

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The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equi-librium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic effects of trade and labor market integration. In our model trade is costly and features households of different skills and nationalities facing costly forward-looking relocation decisions. We use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and na-tionality across 17 countries for the period 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to labor mobility costs, and to identify the change in labor mobility costs associated to the actual change in policy. We apply our model and use these estimates, as well as the observed changes in tariffs, to quantify the effects from the EU enlargement. We find that new member state countries are the largest winners from the EU enlargement, and in particular unskilled labor. We find smaller welfare gains for EU-15 countries. However, in the absence of changes to trade policy, the EU-15 would have been worse off after the enlargement. We study even further the interaction effects between trade and migration policies and the role of different mechanisms in shaping our results. Our results highlight the importance of trade for the quantification of the welfare and migration effects from labor market integration.

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Section: A2 Trade Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement

Caliendo¹,

Opromolla²,

Parro³

et al. 2017

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“…The sample average (logarithm) annual growth rate of firm-productdestination exports in 2014 was 3.8%, so this would imply that those from security-certified firms would have a growth rate 2.8 percentage points higher than those from counterparts lacking such certification. 12 Having said that, we should mention that results are robust to using the median assignment to the red channel as in Volpe Martincus et al (2015). These alternative results are available from the authors upon request 11 The non-conditional effects of the variables that form the interaction terms are already accounted for by the sets of fixed effects.…”

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“…where represents allocation to the red channel and is the median customs delays (see Volpe Martincus et al, 2015). 10 Second, we disentangle the channels of the effects based on the following variants of the baseline equation:…”

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“…The first database includes transaction-level export and import data from 2005 to 2014. Specifically, each record comprises a firm's ID, the product code (10-digit HS), the customs office (port/airport/land border) through which the shipment exits/enters Mexico, the destination/origin country, the export and import values in US dollars, the quantities (weight) in kilograms, the channel through which the transaction was processed (either green or red), the date in which the customs-processing of the shipment was requested (channel request), the date in which the shipment was authorized to leave the customs (release date), i.e., the customs clearance times, and an indicator that reports whether the shipment had an irregularity and whether this irregularity was minor or important (see Volpe Martincus et al, 2015).…”

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Trust No One?: Security and International Trade

Carballo¹,

Schaur²,

Martincus³

2016

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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose, as provided below. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Following a peer review process, and with previous written consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a revised version of this work may also be reproduced in any academic journal, including those indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. Therefore, the restriction to receive income from such publication shall only extend to the publication's author(s). With regard to such restriction, in case of any inconsistency between the Creative Commons IGO 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and these statements, the latter shall prevail.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. AbstractSecurity concerns in a context of increasingly segmented supply chains have led to stricter border control measures, which may potentially negatively affect international trade. Customs around the world have therefore implemented security-motivated certification programs to facilitate licit trade. These programs offer trustworthy trading firms, i.e., Authorized Economic Operators (AEOs), several advantages in the administrative processing of their shipments including less frequent physical inspections and expedited customs clearance. In this study we focus on Mexico's AEO Program NEEC.In particular, we evaluate the impact of this program by primarily carrying out differences-in-differences estimations on highly disaggregated firm-level data that cover the entire universe of export and import transactions of the country over the period 2009-2014. Estimation results suggest that NEEC has been associated with less physical inspections and shorter clearance times and has thereby favored increased firms' exports. Effects seem to be stronger on the frequency of shipments and on consumer goods, industrial inputs, and capital goods.

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“…For 2010-2013 we additionally have transaction-level data. These data also inform the port, airport or land border (hereafter, generically "port") through which the shipment exits Costa Rica, the transport mode, the date in which the customs-processing of the shipment was requested (channel request) and date in which the shipment was authorized to leave the customs (release date), i.e., the customs clearance times (see Volpe Martincus et al, 2015). This database also reports the month in which the new customs information system started to operate in each port.…”

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The Border Labyrinth: Information Technologies and Trade in the Presence of Multiple Agencies

Carballo¹,

Graziano²,

Schaur³

et al. 2016

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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose, as provided below. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Following a peer review process, and with previous written consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a revised version of this work may also be reproduced in any academic journal, including those indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. Therefore, the restriction to receive income from such publication shall only extend to the publication's author(s). With regard to such restriction, in case of any inconsistency between the Creative Commons IGO 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and these statements, the latter shall prevail.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent.http://www.iadb.org [2016] The More precisely, this paper investigates whether and how changes in the technology available for submitting, processing and sharing data to comply with border regulations affects trade. In particular, we take advantage of Costa Rica's gradual policy driven change from a paper-based to an electronic trade single window that allows for streamlined administrative procedures to obtain product-specific authorizations required to export to identify the impact of information technologies on firms' exports. 1We carry out difference-in-differences estimations on highly disaggregated firm-level export data from Costa Rica over the period 2007-2013 that distinguish whether shipments' required documentation was processed manually and separately with each intervening agency -even when potentially presented at a single physical entry point-or electronically in a simultaneous manner for all relevant agencies. Our results indicate that the introduction of an electronic single window that simplified administrative procedures has been associated with an increase in exports from firms whose products require permits.Such increase in exports can be traced back to higher shipping frequency, buyer diversification, and greater sales per buyer. This effect has been stronger for firms that have to interact with several public 1 More specifically, Costa Rica imple...

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Customs

Cited by 103 publications

References 44 publications

Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement

Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement

Trust No One?: Security and International Trade

The Border Labyrinth: Information Technologies and Trade in the Presence of Multiple Agencies

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