EU-27 Tariff Preference Margins for 2008

Céline Carrère provides a novel measure of tariff preference margins granted by the EU-27 to its trading partners. The dataset calculates preferential margins for each partner country-product pair, covering 222 countries and territories and 5048 products at the HS6-2007 classification level, resulting in approximately 1,120,000 margins for the year 2008. It also includes two more standard measures of these margins.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the competitive effects of EU tariff preferences based on the novel theoretical measure.
• Comparing preferential margins across partner countries and products using the HS6-2007 classification.
• Benchmarking the novel measure against standard measures of tariff preference margins.
• Studying the impact of EU trade agreements on market access for non-EU producers.

Strengths

• Provides a novel theoretical measure of preference margins accounting for competition between non-EU partners and EU producers.
• Contains approximately 1,120,000 calculated margins for a single year (2008).
• Includes data for 222 countries and territories across 5048 products (HS6-2007).

Limitations

• Data is limited to a single year (2008), limiting temporal analysis.
• Column names and exact data structure are not provided in the metadata.
• Conflicting authorship metadata: listed as Carrère, Céline on Dataverse and Issakha THIAM on Figshare.

Provenance

Source

FERDI Research Data

Collection Method

Calculated from theoretical work and trade data.

Time Range

2008

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-06-06 (Dataverse).

Geography

EU-27 and 222 partner countries and territories.