Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
Item Number: [J36]
Title: What Was Protected? Measuring India's Tariff Barriers
1968-1992
Abstract: We investigate the inter-industry structure of protection in
India, asking how much protection each industry receives and how this changes
over time. We calculate, compare and analyze several measures of trade protection
across agricultural, manufacturing and service industries. Protection
levels were high when ex ante tariffs are used as the basis of measurement,
supporting earlier studies. However, when ex poste tariff rates are used,
a number of sectors exhibit negative effective protection rates. In addition,
ex poste rates show greater variability and provide a different ranking of
the degree of protection by industry when compared to ex ante tariff-based
measures.
Reference: Ira N. Gang and Mirhi Pandey, What Was Protected?
Measuring India's Tariff Barriers 1968-1992, Indian Economic Review,
33 (1998) 119-152.
Co-Author Information:
Mihir Pandey
Ramjas College, New Delhi
E-Mail: rutgers@vsnl.com
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