Search Results - subject:"non tariff barriers"

Food standards: modeling regulatory changes in trade impact assessments : simulations with an extended structuralist computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Von Arnim, Rudiger; Tröster, Bernhard; Raza, Werner - 2024

Is the harmonization of different food standards between countries in the context of free trade agreements exclusively positive, or is there a risk of high social costs for consumers? The harmonization of different national regulations plays an important role in contemporary trade policy. In...

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Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of health and safety regulations

Tröster, Bernhard; Von Arnim, Rudiger; Raza, Werner - 2024

Even though trade negotiations have increasingly come to focus on regulatory issues, the full impacts, that is, both social costs and benefits of regulatory changes, often remain unexamined in trade impact assessments. To bridge this gap, we scrutinize the theoretical foundations, methodologies...

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Trust, regulation and trade

Von Arnim, Rudiger; Tröster, Bernhard; Raza, Werner - 2024

Can consumers trust that the food they buy in the supermarket, even if imported, is not harmful to their health? What would be the consequences if their trust in existing health and safety standards were to be undermined by recognizing lower foreign standards? Against the backdrop of public...

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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...

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Trade regulations for climate action? : new insights from the global non-tariff measures database

UNCTAD; Vereinte Nationen / Economic and Social … - 2023

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Brexit and consumer food prices

Bakker, Jan David; Datta, Nikhil; Davies, Richard; De … - 2023

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Emerging challenges in implementing the common market protocol for free movement of goods in the East African community

Chilangazi, Eliah; Magasi, Chacha - 2023

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A new measure of aggregate trade restrictions : cyclical drivers and macro effects

Estefania-Flores, Julia; Furceri, Davide; Ahmed Hannan, … - 2023

This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is strongly correlated with existing measures of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in...

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Brexit and consumer food prices

Bakker, Jan David; Datta, Nikhil; Davies, Richard; De … - 2023

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Revisiting the trade-creating effects of non-tariff barriers

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Teti, Feodora - 2023

Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade … data set of high-quality tariff information, the paper shows that, on average, non-tariff barriers reductions in deep … regional trade agreement reveals strong heterogeneity: only 23 percent of all regional trade agreements seem to lower non-tariff …

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