GTAP Resources: TASTE
TASTE for GTAP 10
TASTE uses ITC MacMAP flows and applied tariffs. You can run a TASTE tariff simulation using the "A" series of tariff rules [AEQUALS, AMIN, ASWISS, AFSWISS, AGIRARD, ALINEAR and ATIERED], which changes applied rates. This TASTE version includes applied and bound tariff rates as well as the corresponding trade flows for the year 2014. The data is based on, and broadly consistent with, the ITC MacMAP tariff dataset employed in GTAP 10.
Download TASTE for GTAP 10 (1.6 GB)
TASTE - A Tariff Analytical and Simulation Tool for Economists - Data Updates and Applications
TASTE Documentation
Disclaimer: The authors of this version of TASTE, namely Mark Horridge, David Laborde and Janine Pelikan, are not responsible for ensuring the quality of the underlying tariff dataset, which was produced by ITC.
TASTE is a program, developed by Mark Horridge and David Laborde, that reads from the MAcMapsHS6 data, produced by ITC-Geneva. The TASTE program addresses two needs of GTAP users:
- To prepare files of tariff shocks where GTAP users need information about bound rates (not part of GTAP) and applied rates at a detailed sectoral level (HS6).
- To provide tariff data for SplitCom, which allows you to split one or more of the supplied GTAP sectors.
The TASTE program itself reads the enormous MAcMapHS6 dataset and performs various operations, in particular:
- Transformation of scenarios about formula-based changes in bound rates into files of percent change shocks to applied rates which could be used by RunGTAP.
- Generation of matrices of splitting weights which could be used to split a sector in the trade matrices of a GTAP Model Data Base (maybe using the SplitCom method).
Documentation for TASTE is available at:
- TASTE a program to adapt detailed trade and tariff data to GTAP-related purposes
by Horridge, Mark and David Laborde
