Improving Preferential Market Access through Rules of Origin: Firm-Level Evidence from Bangladesh

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sytsma, Tobias
• 署名单位: RAND Corporation
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20200257
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 440-472
• 关键词: global value chains; trade liberalization; intermediate inputs; IMPACT; QUALITY; margins; gravity; PRODUCTIVITY; industry; exports

摘要

In countries where there exist limited opportunities to source inputs locally, rules of origin undermine access to preferential trade agreements for final goods exporters. I analyze the 2011 revision to the rules of origin associated with the European Union's Generalized System of Preferences, which allowed apparel producers in least developed countries to use internationally sourced textiles in exported products. Using transaction-level data on Bangladeshi apparel firms, I find that the rules of origin effectively cut the preferential margin by three-fourths. Liberalizing the rules of origin resulted in firm-level revenue growth, which was driven by the intensive margin through increased shipment sizes and quality upgrading.