Search Results - subject:"TECHNICAL REGULATIONS"

Exporting Vietnam's agricultural and fishery products to European Union market under green trade barriers

Khoi, Nguyen Viet; Thuy, Le Thi Thanh - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2013) 3/4, pp. 309-328

technical regulations and expenditure for conformity assessment actually increase production costs to small and medium companies …

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Exporting Vietnam's agricultural and fishery products to European Union market under green trade barriers

Nguyen Viet Khoi; Le Thi Thanh Thuy - In: International journal of diplomacy and economy 1 (2013) 3/4, pp. 309-328

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394712

North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade

Cadot, Olivier; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Fontagné, Lionel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

-South harmonization of technical regulations reinforces a hub-and-spoke trade structure potentially detrimental to the development of …

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On the Measurement of Trade Costs: Direct vs. Indirect Approaches to Quantifying Standards and Technical Regulations

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

emphasis on nontariff measures and in particular on standards and technical regulations. We distinguish 'direct' from 'indirect …

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On the conservation of distance in international trade

Berthelon, Matias; Freund, Caroline - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The volume of world trade has grown more than twice as fast as real world income since 1980. Surprisingly, the effect of distance on trade has increased during this period. It could be that countries are trading greater volumes of goods that are highly sensitive to distance. An alternative...

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Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements and Technical Barriers to Trade: An African Perspective

Meyer, Nico; Fenyes, Tamas; Breitenbach, Martin; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

. Existing provisions for eliminating TBT-related barriers or harmonising legitimate technical regulations are formulated mostly …

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International Standards and Trade: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Swann, G.M. Peter - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

While there is a large literature on the economic theory of international standards, and their presumed effects, we know much less about how international standards work in practice. This paper reviews the body of empirical work that has investigated the specific question: How international...

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The Use of International Standards in Technical Regulation

Fliess, Barbara; Gonzales, Frédéric; Kim, Jeonghoi; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

To what extent are governments drawing on relevant international standards in their technical regulations, as mandated … five OECD countries detailed factual information on technical regulations, their objectives and standards use in three … in technical regulations provide a source of rich and accurate data for use in empirical work on how regulatory use of …

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Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers; A Cross-Country Investigation

Wang, Qing - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

A comprehensive empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. We first present a statistical summary of the status of global trade protection. Then, based on a monopolistic competition trade model and 1994 cross-country data on trade...

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Estimation of Trade Protection in Middle East and North African Countries

Oliva, Maria-Angels - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper studies the structure and evolution of trade protection in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries in the 1990s. MENA countries use tariffs and nontariff barriers, and tariff dispersion and nontariff barriers, as substitute protection measures. Tariff levels and tariff...

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