The Last Free Traders? Interwar Trade Policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pim de Zwart, Wageningen University; Lampe Markus, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Kevin O'Rourke, NYU-Abu Dhabi
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Project Citation:
de Zwart, Pim, Markus, Lampe, and O’Rourke, Kevin . The Last Free Traders? Interwar Trade Policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E195482V1
Project Description
Summary:
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There has still been too
little detailed work on the protectionism that emerged in the wake of the Great
Depression. In this paper we explore the experiences of two countries that have
been largely neglected in the literature, the Netherlands and Netherlands East
Indies (NEI). How did these traditionally free-trading economies respond to the
Depression? We construct a detailed product-level database of tariff and
non-tariff barriers to trade based on primary sources. While ad valorem tariff
increases in the Netherlands were largely due to deflation, the country
protected agriculture and textiles in a number of ways. Once quotas are taken
into account, trade restrictiveness indices suggest that protection in the
Netherlands and NEI was comparable to protection in the UK and India
respectively. The NEI quota system was largely geared to protecting Dutch
exporters, and succeeded in doing so, but the reverse was not true.
Funding Sources:
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Netherlands Research Council (275-53-016);
European Research Council (249546)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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tariffs;
quota;
discrimination;
empire;
interwar period;
Netherlands;
Netherlands East Indies
Geographic Coverage:
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Netherlands,
Indonesia
Time Period(s):
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1924 – 1938
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