Machinery Production Networks and Import Tariff Evasion

Import Risk Analysis: Vehicle and Machinery

Outsourcing Tariff Evasion : a New Explanation for Entrepôt Trade

Traditional explanations for indirect trade through an entrepôt focus on savings in transport costs and the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative perspective based on the potential for entrepôts to facilitate tariff evasion. Using data on direct exports to mainland China and indirect exports via Hong Kong SAR, we find that the indirect export rate ...

Tariff concessions in production sourcing

In this paper, we study a multi-stage production sourcing problem where tariff concessions can be exploited at the firm level using free trade agreements between countries. To solve the problem, an algorithm which embeds a very large-scale neighborhood (VSLN) search into a simulated annealing framework is developed. A numerical study is conducted to verify the effectiveness of the solution appr...

Tariff Optimization in Networks

W consider the problem of determining a set of optimal tariffs for an agent in the network, who owns a subset of all the arcs, and who receives revenue by setting the tariffs on the arcs he owns. Multiple rational clients are active in the network, who route their demands on the least expensive paths from source to destination. The cost of a path is determined by fixed costs and tariffs on the ...

The Protein Import Machinery of Mitochondria*

Most mitochondrial proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and then synthesized as precursors on cytosolic ribosomes after which they must be imported into the organelle. The mitochondrial membranes contain specific machineries (translocases) for recognition, translocation, and membrane insertion of precursor proteins. In recent years, important progress has been made in characterizing the molecu...