@article{Feizabadi:210352,
      recid = {210352},
      author = {Feizabadi},
      title = {The Theory of Political Tariff Protection for Agricultural  Sector in Developing Countries},
      journal = {International Journal of Agricultural Management and  Development (IJAMAD)},
      address = {2014-03-15},
      number = {1047-2016-85501},
      pages = {5},
      month = {Mar},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {This paper aims to analyze tariff protection policies in  the agricultural sector of developing countries. The  agricultural tariff structure in developing countries is  characterized by: i) high average tariffs, ii) the  existence of tariff escalation, iii) dispersion of nominal  tariffs across tariff lines, and iv) a wide gap between  average nominal tariffs and import-weighted average  tariffs. Consequently, some features can be extracted that  are consistent with the observed patterns of tariff  protection in developing countries: i) escalation of  nominal tariff rates with the degree of processing, ii)  higher average tariffs in the agricultural sector compared  to agriculture in developed countries, and iii) higher  non-agricultural than agricultural tariff protection. Here  the Theory of Political Tariff Protection for Agricultural  Sector in developing countries is described. This theory  allows us to identify two sets of products. Agricultural  products for which tariffs are higher than their political  fitted values, therefore, tariff cuts should occur in a  long period of time and for which tariffs are higher than  their political fitted values therefore tariff reductions  would not be politically costly.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/210352},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.210352},
}