Trade Liberalization and Environmental Pollution in Iran

Authors : Seyednezamuddin MAKİYAN, Mahsa SAEEDİ GORAGHANİ, Mehdi NEJATI

Pages : 557-573

Doi:10.26650/JEPR1023518

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Publication Date : 2022-07-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The environment is one of the main concerns in global policies and affects many of the other factors including economic and political. This study aims to express the effect of the trade liberalization policy on environmental pollution in the frame of a multi-regional system model. Thus, the GTAP-E model was utilized for the year 2019, so that the environmental consequences (in terms of measurement of CO2 emission) studied as the result of reducing the tariffs on import. In two scenarios, the impact of the shock of reduction importation tariffs on the gross domestic production, CO2 emissions and the sum of the value added of the economy in the eight sections introduced in the model as indicators, technical and composition effects. The results in both cases indicate a reduction in the scale, technical and composition effects, and thus improve the environment.
Keywords : Trade liberalization, Environment pollution, CO2 emission, Global trade analysis project model, Tariff