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The product and sector level impact of a hard Brexit across the EU

Lawless, Martina and Morgenroth, Edgar L.W. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9442-0561 (2019) The product and sector level impact of a hard Brexit across the EU. Contemporary Social Science, 14 (2). pp. 189-207. ISSN 2158-2041

Abstract
The UK exit from the European Union (Brexit) is likely to have a range of impacts, with trade flows one of the most immediate areas where the effects will become evident. One possible outcome of Brexit is a situation where WTO tariffs apply to merchandise trade between the UK and the EU. By examining detailed trade flows between the UK and all other EU members, matching over 5200 products to the WTO tariff applicable to external EU trade this paper shows that such an outcome would result in significantly different impacts across countries. Our estimates of exposure at the country level show an extremely wide range with reductions in trade to the UK falling by 5% (Finland) to 43% (Bulgaria) taking into account the new tariffs and the elasticity of the trade response to this price increase. Food and textiles trade are the hardest hit, with trade in these sectors reducing by up to 90%.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:: Brexit; WTO tariffs; merchandise trade
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Publisher:Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2018.1558276
Copyright Information:© 2019
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:23547
Deposited On:15 Jul 2019 15:09 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 15 Aug 2019 11:53
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