Transit Trade

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

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“…Our data is similar to Carballo et al (2016a) in terms of the information regarding the transit regime. Here we add information on freight and insurance charges to their detailed export data.…”

Section: Data and Descriptive Evidencesupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Focusing on exports and using detailed transaction level trade data, Carballo et al (2016a) find that TIM raises El Salvador's exports. 3 Given this increase in exports and the associated increase in the demand for freight services, the natural next step is to examine how TIM affects freight and insurance rates per value, weight and shipment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Properly designed transit trade regimes allow traders to seal shipments at their origin, pass through multiple border controls with minimal procedural requirements, and clear customs at the final destination, thus substantially lowering administrative costs. Carballo et al (2016a) use transaction-level data for El Salvador and take advantage of the stepwise introduction of a transit trade regime across trade corridors in Central America to provide evidence. As with the previous studies, an advantage of this approach is that the policy indicator is not at the country level, but varies across shipments depending on the route and time.…”

Section: Evidence From Transaction-level Trade and Trade Facilitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On one hand, as mentioned above, the TIM has been associated with an expansion in trade, which has been primarily driven by a higher shipping frequency (Carballo et al 2016a). This has resulted in an increase in the demand for transportation services.…”

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“…Keeping this in mind, our results provide evidence that total freight charges and total insurance charges to deliver exports increase as a consequence of the implementation of a streamlined transit trade system such as the TIM. Perhaps this is not surprising.Focusing on exports and using detailed transaction level trade data, Carballo et al (2016a) find that TIM raises El Salvador's exports. 3 Given this increase in exports and the associated increase in the demand for freight services, the natural next step is to examine how TIM affects freight and insurance rates per value, weight and shipment.…”

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This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms facing higher fixed export costs are less likely to export, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particularly novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face greater fixed export costs than low-productivity exporters. We also find that the substitution between fixed export costs and productivity in determining export decisions is weaker for firms with higher productivity. Finally, both larger fixed export costs and greater within-triplet productivity dispersion raise the export volume of the average exporter.JEL codes: F10, F12, F14.

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Trade Effects of Customs Reform: Evidence from Albania

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Despite enormous academic interest in international trade costs and keen policy interest in efforts to reduce them, little is known about the effects of trade facilitation measures. This study evaluates a significant Albanian reform that sharply reduced physical inspections of import shipments. An estimation strategy that isolates quasi-random variation in the allocation of shipments to physical inspections is used to show that reduced inspections significantly increase imports. Import flows that are observed least frequently see the largest trade responses to reduced inspections. The effect of inspections on imports is virtually independent of changes in clearance time and clearance time uncertainty. Tariff and other tax revenues collected at the border rise in direct proportion to growth in declared import value. There is no compelling evidence that reduced inspections increase evasive behavior, perhaps because most of Albania's imports are tariff-free.

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Transit Trade

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Transportation and trade interactions: a trade facilitation perspective

Transportation and trade interactions: a trade facilitation perspective

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