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In recent years the export tariff has Increasingly been abandoned as a policy tool by the developed countries, yet it has been maintained by the less developed countries.
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CFA, the Central African franc.
Exports are used when registered exports are N.A.
International Monetary Fund, Surveys of African Economies, Washington, D.C., 1970, Volume 3, p. 359.
Export tariff on crude petroleum is aimed at this also in oil producing countries.
T. O. Yntema, “The Influence of Dumping on Monopoly Price”, Journal of Political Economy, XXXVI (December, 1928), 686-698; Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, London, 1933, pp. 181–184 and Steven Enke, “The Monopsony Case for Tariffs”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, LVIII (February, 1944), pp. 229–245.
Outright prohibition of exports will also increase (by a larger amount) domestic sales. The optimal (export) tariff equates foreign marginal value of imports and exports. (See Enke, op. cit., and Richard Caves, Trade and Economic Structure, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960, p. 184.) See figure 1.
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Cohen, B., Marks, H. & Schachter, G. Export tariffs in central African Countries. Intereconomics 6, 281–283 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929119
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