ABSTRACT
This paper tries to investigate whether French trade policies discriminate against LDCs exports to France during the last decade. At a first glance such an investigation may appear somewhat odd: since the introduction of the EC Generalized System of Preferences (hereafter GSP) it is largely believed in France-and in Europe-that trade rules established with the Third World countries are “fair” for the LDCs. However a similar belief in Australia was shown to be erroneous by Warr and Lloyd (1982): the Australian system of protection remained biased against LDCs exports even after the introduction of the Australian GSP. Is such a result also verified in the French case?
