Trade rules and exchange rate misalignments: in search for a WTO solution

 The debate on the link between trade rules and rules on exchange rates is raising the attention of experts on international trade law and economics. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of exchange rate misalignments on tariffs as applied by the WTO – World Trade Organi...

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Autores: Thorstensen, Vera, Marçal, Emerson, Ferraz, Lucas
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2014
País:Brasil
Recursos:EDITORA 34
Repositório:Revista de Economia Política
Idioma:inglês
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Acesso em linha:https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/278
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:taxa de câmbio
comercio internacional
tarifas
FMI
OMC
Exchange rate
international trade
tariffs
IMF
WTO
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Resumo: The debate on the link between trade rules and rules on exchange rates is raising the attention of experts on international trade law and economics. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of exchange rate misalignments on tariffs as applied by the WTO – World Trade Organization. It is divided into five sections: the first one explains the methodology used to determine exchange rate misalignments and also presents its results for Brazil, US and China; the second summarizes the methodology applied to calculate the impacts of exchange rate misalignments on the level of tariff protection through an exercise of “misalignment tariffication”; the third examines the effects of exchange rate variations on tariffs and their consequences for the multilateral trading system; the fourth one creates a methodology to estimate exchange rates against a currency of the World and a proposal to deal with persistent and significant misalignments related to trade rules. The conclusions are present in the last section.   JEL Classification: F10; F13; F31.