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The Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) was signed into law in August 1983. This bill outlines provisions of the Reagan administration's Caribbean Basin Initiative, a broad program of trade incentives and economic assistance measures designed to enhance political stability and economic growth in the Caribbean Basin region by fostering trade and investment. The paper identifies the factors responsible for inter-country differences in CBERA participation. (DÜI-Sen)

This paper determines whether domestic pressure groups were able to influence product coverage in the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) using Marvel and Ray's protection formation model. The methodology employed identifies measures of constituent political power predicted by economic regulation theory which influence the ability of an industry to alter regulatory outcomes such as the CBI. Results suggest protectionists enjoyed considerable success in shaping CBI product coverage

This paper uses a two‐stage approach to investigate the process of adopting trade provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), and to identify factors which influence the dynamic adoption process. First, logistic growth functions of the share of preferential exports in total exports over time are estimated to provide measures of the adoption rate and upper limit participation value for each CBERA beneficiary. The second step relates these estimated parameters to country‐specific characteristics to identify factors responsible for intercountry differences in CBERA participation. Results indicate that the process of adopting provisions of a tariff preference scheme mirrors a dynamic diffusion process whereby beneficiaries increase their share of preferential exports in total exports to the United States over time.