This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight stylized facts about these interconnected high-stakes international negotiations. We use detailed product-level offer and counteroffer data to examine several questions about trade policy, including whether preferential tariffs were a stumbling block towards liberalization, and whether the relaxation of bilateral reciprocity to multilateral reciprocity aided liberalization. We organize the empirical analysis around a theoretical model of multi-party trade negotiations motivated by the terms-of-trade theory and respecting the institutional features of most-favored-nation status and reciprocity.

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多边贸易谈判：GATT 谈判记录初看

本文实证检验了最近从 GATT/WTO 中解密的关税谈判数据。我们记录了有关这些相互关联的高风险国际谈判的八个程式化事实。我们使用详细的产品级报价和还价数据来研究有关贸易政策的几个问题，包括优惠关税是否是实现自由化的绊脚石，以及双边互惠对多边互惠的放松是否有助于自由化。我们围绕以贸易条件理论为动力的多方贸易谈判的理论模型进行实证分析，并尊重最惠国地位和互惠的制度特征。