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Trade Liberalisation and Selected Manufacturing Sectoral Groups in Nigeria

This paper investigates the impact of Trade Liberalization on some selected manufacturing sectoral groups: Food, Beverages & Tobacco (FBT); Cement (CEM) and Basic Metal, Iron & Steel (BM) in Nigeria.Using the DOLS technique of analysis.Trade liberalization was proxied with Trade Openness (OP); other variables expressed exogenously were Labour Force (L), Foreign Direct Investment inflow into manufacturing sector (FDI) and Exchange Rate (EXCH).The results of analysis led to the conclusion that trade liberalization does not have significant impact on FBT,CEM, and BM in Nigeria.FDI is positively s…