Tariff Escalation and Invasive Species Risk



of consumer surplus, producer surplus and tariff revenue increases as the tariff on the final good
falls. Therefore, total welfare, which is the sum of welfare in the final-good and input markets

increases after reforms. h

To express the local inequality —— > -^^
z dDI
IFG


in terms of underlying parameters, we first


take the log differential of IFG and DI with respect to the natural logarithm of the tariff factor

τIFG, which leads to

dln IFG
d
ln τIFG


sDFGθ

1 -θ


/(1 -sDFG) and


d ln DI
d
ln tifg


1

.
1
-θ


These expressions are substituted into the inequality

dln IFG/ dln τ  IFG

dIFG
dDI
,


IFG
dln DI/ dln τ   DI

IFG
therefore

zI

zIFG


dlnIFG/dln τ  IFG

IFG
---<
dln DI/ dln τ DI
IFG
which after simplification leads to

tifg zi1 + γ(1 - θ)
.
τI zIFG       sDFGθ

(23)


This sufficient condition for welfare improvement is expressed locally in terms of
underlying parameters, where (-γ) and (θ/(ɪ-θ)) are the own-price elasticity of demand and
domestic supply of the final good, and
sDFG is the share of the final good consumption sourced
domestically (
DFG/FG). This local condition is intuitive. As demand elasticity gets smaller in
absolute value (lower γ), the expansion of FG and IFG induced by the lower tariff is moderated.
As parameter
θ gets larger, the decrease of the derived demand for DI induced by the lower tariff
gets larger in absolute value, and so does the decrease in
I and its IS externality. A large share

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