Tariffs in Chile
From 1930 through 1960 the Chilean economy was highly protected with import and export quotas, import permits, tariffs, noninterest-bearing import deposits and multiple exchange rates imposed by the government. The Central Bank negotiated, with each importer, which exchange rate to apply to each transaction. Moreover, imports included only intermediate and capital goods and a few essential consumer goods. Guidelines to approve products from other countries were followed and several goods were prohibited for importation. Because of this situation, there were three attempts to eliminate tariffs and all restrictions. By 1974, changes started taking place. Trade liberalization allowed Chile to develop where they had a
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Also, Chile has a Trans-Pacific Agreement known as P-4 with New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam.
The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, also named P4 or TPP, is a trade agreement between Chile, Brunei, New Zealand and Singapore signed in 2005 and has been in force since 2006. It was designed to liberalize trade between the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. However, since 2010 negotiations have taken place to expand the original trade union to incorporate eight other countries including Mexico, USA, Canada and Australia. Chile’s economy has benefit from trading with countries in the TPP. In 2012, almost $16 billion of Chile’s overall $79 billion worth exports went to TPP countries. At the same time, Chile imported $25 billion in return. Since 2003, Chile’s trade with TPP nations has grown by 16% each year.
Chile and USA entered into the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreements on January 1, 2004. This agreement eliminates tariffs and open markets, reduces barriers for trade in services, provides protection for intellectual property, ensures regulatory transparency, guarantees nondiscrimination in the trade of digital products, commits both parties to maintain competition laws that prohibit anticompetitive business conduct and requires effective labor and environmental enforcement. Through duty elimination, the agreement allows U.S. textile and apparel exporters to
Since 2010, government and corporate representatives have been meeting, frequently in extreme secrecy, to outline their plans for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a substantial expansion and revision of the original 2005 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore (Hsieh 368). The new agreement would include at least five other countries (Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Vietnam), with the potential for Japan and South Korea to join as well (Office of the United States Trade Representative). The Trans-Pacific Partnership represents the single most important development in the area of economic globalization since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. However, the extreme secrecy with which the agreement is being negotiated has led many to believe that its contents would likely prove unpopular with the general public. Exploring the limited information available via public announcements and leaked documents reveals that current plans for the partnership go well beyond regulating trade relations between nations to include things like onerous copyright and intellectual property restrictions, limitations on national and state-level product safety regulation, environmental standards, and labor organization. In light of these serious problems, it appears that a better way to encourage development and distribute the benefits of free trade across the world would be to open up
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership aims to establish a tariff free economic cooperation zones between twelve countries around the Pacific Ocean. These countries are the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, thus creating the largest trade zone in the world (Jackson, 2015). The
The government also advocated the development of domestic industry in order to protect Chile from future external economic shocks. Thus, Chile, like many other Latin American nations at the time, adopted a policy of import-substitution industrialization. Its aim was to “encourage the creation of homegrown industries to replace Latin American dependence on foreign manufactured goods” (Berliner) which was done in part by establishing quotas, licenses, and higher tariffs on imports and a strict exchange rate in Chile.
Chile is now part of something called the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) from 2011-2016 (worldbank.org). The Country Partnership Strategy works off the successful experience of the World Bank group strategy. Chile’s demand of the World Bank focuses solely on the provision of technical assistance and other knowledge products. The World Bank has an advantage in these areas and can help Chile achieve its long term goals. The
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A draft of a top-secret piece of interstate agreement on the Trans- Pacific Partnership leaked online causing a hot status to its discussion. Trans -Pacific Partnership (TPP) - is the largest supra-trade and economic organization, the creation of which is scheduled for completion by the end of 2013. In an agreement on the TPP participating countries, generating more than 40% of global GDP: the U.S., Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brunei, Chile, Vietnam and Peru. China and Russia are not included to this list.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been in the works between the EU and Japan since 2013 for a free trade agreement and Non-Tariff Measures in order to ease the burdens of existing trade barriers with Japan. Urgency recently developed when the Trump, the President of the United States of America, left the partnership affecting the other 11 members of the trading bloc. (EU-Japan Center for Industrial Cooperation , 2017)
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In 1994, the leaders of the thirty-four democratic countries of the Western Hemisphere launched the process of creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA will be established by 2010 with the aim of gradually eradicating barriers to trade and investment in the region. The final characteristics of the FTAA will be determined through negotiations by government officials from the thirty-four participating countries. The trade issues that are presently under discussion are: market access; investment; services; government procurement; dispute settlement; agriculture; intellectual property; antidumping, subsidies and countervailing duties; and competition policy. Guiding principles for these negotiations
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an economic free trade agreement currently being negotiated between New Zealand and 11 other Pacific Rim nations (Wyber & Perry, 2013). It seeks to reduce trade restrictions including tariffs, create shared guidelines for intellectual property rights, sanction codes for environmental and labour regulations, and create an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system (Fergusson, McMinimy & Williams, 2015). The implications of the TPP are immense, encompassing nearly 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP), with the potential to affect various aspects of a nations’ domestic policy environment (Wyber & Perry, 2013). On-going formal mediations have taken place since 2008; however public interest in the ramifications of the agreement has increased as negotiations have proceeded (Wyber & Perry, 2013). This is likely a result of its growing media coverage, which has raised public awareness to the issue. The private nature of TPP negotiations has evoked widespread controversy and debate throughout the media (Jairath, Johnstone & Moore, 2015). While confidentiality amid trade agreements is common, some consider that the TPP has been concealed in specific secrecy, giving more influential power to industries involved (Wyber & Perry, 2013).
The numerous trade agreements developed between different groups of countries reveal the success of developing such relationships. Countries these trade agreements have reported increased imports and
Governments intervene in international trade through use of tariffs that are levied on both imports and exports. The government may either impose fixed tariffs that are calculated per unit of the import commodity or the ad valorem tariff that is calculated as a fixed percentage of the monetary value of the imported commodity. The government imposes high import tariffs in order to control the rate of imports by making the imports more expensive in comparison to the domestically produced substitutes. The tariffs increase the prices of goods and services thus reducing the quantity demanded (Misra and Yadav 2009). The use of tariffs is detrimental to international trade since it lowers competition and results in high prices of commodities in the markets. The tariffs discourage imports and domestic producers benefit from the higher prices and reduction in competition. The EU uses variable