Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s

Trade protection costs the European Community between 6 and 7 percent of its gross domestic product, or the equivalent of the annual economic output of Spain. Continuing the Institute's series on trade protection in major countries (which already includes the United States, Japan, Korea, and China), this study by Patrick A. Messerlin is the first attempt to measure the impact of all types of protection in the European Union.

Messerlin uses partial equilibrium methods to assess the costs to c...