Abstract
Contingent protection harasses foreign exporters and reduces their incentives to export and to support international tradeliberalization agreements. The resulting watereddown trade agreement rewards the harassing industry—even if the harassmentbased policy itself provides no direct protection. This approach carries several implications for the expected pattern of use of contingent protection. In addition, several lingering puzzles concerning contingent protection disappear if harassment to alter foreigners’ trade policy preferences—rather than direct protection per se—is the goal.
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