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Issue and Page Numbers: Volume 108, Issue 449 - July 1998

Article Title: 'Standard Measures of Barriers To Trade Are Seriously Flawed' by J.E. Anderson

File size: 272KB

Description of data:

importer "4 digit hs(=4 digit cccn)" "trade value($'000)" "quantity(units unknown since aggregated)" "averagetarifftrade weighted" "ntb coverage trade weighted" "averagetariffunweighted" "ntb coverage unweighted" total number of national tariff lines that fall into the 4 digit hs code from column B total number of hard core ntbs that fall into the 4 digit hs code from column B dummy for intermediate and final goods; 0 stands for intermediate and 1 stands for final goods "IF(F>0.75,1,0)" E/100 C*1000
* These columns do not appear in the raw data. They contain intermediary calculations and sorting criteria which are used in the _int and _fin worksheets.

About -INT and -FIN Data Files

"The -INT and -FIN suffixes indicate intermediate and final goods, respectively. "
"BO-INT, for example, contains intermediate goods data for Bolivia, for the below indicated year."
The -INT and -FIN files consist of seven colomns;
cccn ntb init tariff init imports init ntb new tariff new imports new

Country Codes and Years:

Country Code Full Name Year

AG* Argentina 1985-88
AT Austria 1988
AU Australia 1988
BO* Bolivia 1991
BR Brazil 1989
CA Canada 1990
CH Switzerland 1988
EC* Ecuador 1991
FI Finland 1988
HU* Hungary 1991
ID Indonesia 1989
IN India 1991
MR* Morocco 1986-88
MX Mexico 1989
MY Malaysia 1988
NO Norway 1988
NZ New Zealand 1988
PE* Peru 1991
PH Phillippines 1991
PK* Pakistan 1986-88
PL Poland 1989
PY* Paraguay 1990
TH Thailand 1988
TN Tunisia 1991
US USA 1990
VE* Venezuela 1991

"The data comes from TRAINS sources, which is assembled from the UNCTAD data plus some other sources."
"The data is aggregated to 4 digit hs codes level from 6 or 7 digit level, trade distortion data is trade weighted average tariffs, "
ntb=1 if 75% or more of lines had 'hard core' ntbs.

*The data for the starred countries is not TRAINS data. It was prepared from data supplied by country economists at the World Bank.

For further questions about the data files please contact Can (John) Erbil by e-mail or phone from;
1) Cariasbo@bc.edu
2) (617) 734 7639

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