Non-Tariff Trade Regulations in Indonesia

Nominal and Effective Rates of Protection

Bibliographic Data

ID8416596
AuthorsStephen V Marks (0000-0003-1819-6411, Pomona College, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume53
Issue3
Pages333-357
Publication date2017-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00074918.2017.1298721
OpenAlexW2599754575
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

Non-tariff regulations on imports and exports have spread in Indonesia since 2011. I report findings of a study of many of these regulations, in which a variety of methods were used to estimate the associated nominal rates of protection. These findings were then used to estimate effective rates of protection (ERPs) across 140 tradable-goods sectors in the Indonesian economy in early 2015, taking into account also the effects of the most-favoured-nation and preferential-import tariff schedules, anti-dumping and safeguard duties, export levies, duty drawbacks and exemptions, domestic sub-sidies, and excise taxes. I find that the magnitude and dispersion of ERPs were higher in 2015 than in early 2008, for which a similar study was previously conducted, and that much of the variability was related to quantitative trade restrictions. In particular, the regulations examined boosted a measure of the cost of living by 7.6% in 2015, compared with 2.5% in 2008

Business · Dumping · Economics · Excise · Indonesian · International economics · International trade · Macroeconomics · Safeguard · Tariff · Global trade and economics · Taxation and Compliance Studies · World Trade Organization Law

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