Liberalization - Matches

After a series of launching, shelving and relaunching, critical issues now face the Tariff Reform Program. Rumors have it that a reversal of t..

This paper provides a historical backdrop on export tax and premium duty that are imposed on the country’s export commodities such as minerals, coco..

The study traces the evolution of policies and/or factors that influenced the process of implementing a trade liberalization policy in the Philippines..

This study, which is designed to provide support and guidance to the continuation of policy reforms implemented, is a culmination of several papers wr..

This paper assesses how much has been achieved by the tariff reform program and the import licensing liberalization in terms of the attainment of a un..

Domestic tax system restructuring is viewed by many sectors as an important complement to the tariff reform programs. In this light, the study analyze..

While the Tariff Reform Program offers efficiency in resource allocation, it entails short-run costs. To understand what are these costs, this paper e..

Setting trade liberalization as a goal, this paper discusses in details its timing and sequencing as well as some of its complementary measures. Unt..

This paper examines the possibilities of the Philippines obtaining concessions on the new round of Multilateral Negotiations from major trading partne..

As an input to the measurement of the Tariff Reform Program impact, this paper estimates two calculations of effective protection rate: the 1979 and 1..

This paper examines the nature and extent of non-tariff restrictions on imports, focusing on the period in which Tariff Reform and Import Liberalizati..

Using two sets of estimates for effective protection rate and domestic resource costs for1980, 1982 and 1984, it has been found out that the negative ..

Utilizing the effective protection rate and domestic resource cost framework and using 1980, 1982 and 1984 establishment data, this study analyzes and..

Through the Tariff Reform Program, the textile industry has exhibited a significant progress in its efficiency despite lower effective protection. Eff..

At the beginning of the 1980s, the Philippines, in trying to offset the unfortunate effects of three decades of protection, has embarked on a p..