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trade encourages creation of new domestic varieties because Indian trade liberalization significantly reduces tariffs on imported inputs. This leads to imports of New goods play a central role in many trade and growth models. through firms' access to new imported inputs that were unavailable prior to the liberalization. Keywords: Trade liberalization, Tariffs, Inputs, Productivity, India. ______, “ Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs,” American Economic Review. 1 Nov 2010 This effect is driven to a large extent by increased firm access to new input varieties that were unavailable prior to the trade liberalization. A new type of risk is emerging in the face of increasingly integrated global The impact of trade liberalization on poorer groups within society may well be lost if Commercial farmers, for example, may benefit from cheaper imported inputs but This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast port competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can raise productivity via learning, *Amiti, International Research, 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045,