Welfare Impacts of Tariff Reduction of Imported Wood in Iran: Application of Quadratic Relatively Ideal Demand System

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According to the increasing demand for wood products and limited domestic resources, wood and wood products imports, as one of the easily available and widespread ways in international context, is very important.  Among the policy on the imported wood market is applying a tariff and non-tariff barriers. Understanding the reaction importers against the change priced is important to be determined and applied or reduction of these barriers. The aim of this paper is an empirical investigation of the QUAIDS for unprocessed, half-processed and processed wood imports and unprocessed domestic wood during 1982-2011. Also, we calculate the compensating variation cause by reduction in tariffs. The results shows a substitution relation between imported woods and substitution relation between domestic and imported unprocessed wood as well as complementary relation between domestic unprocessed wood and imported half-processed wood and processed wood. Also, Compensating Variation index shows by tariff reduction change in Appliers expenditure for half-processed wood is higher than those of two others groups. Due to the use of the excessive harvesting of forests and assist tariff reduction to reduce the pressure on domestic forests, is recommended to reduce the tariffs based on temporal plan. This temporal plan is necessary be considered the possibility of compliance related industries. Also the tariff reduction according to requirements of WTO is important which IRAN is trying to join the organization. Thus, it is proposed that the wood products as a whole to be managed by the same administrative system expecting to take into consideration the whole of wood market.

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 47, Issue 2
December 2016
Pages 271-284

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