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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System

Ederington, Josh; Ruta, Michele - 2016

With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …

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Technical Measures to Trade in Central America : Incidence, Price Effects, and Consumer Welfare

Kelleher, Sinead; Reyes, José-Daniel - 2014

measures and technical barriers to trade in the region and benchmarks it with other parts of the world. The results indicate … that the Central American region has the lowest prevalence of technical nontariff measures in the world. However, there is …

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Trade Effects of Regional Standards Liberalization : A Heterogeneous Firms Approach

Baller, Silja - 2012

This study investigates trade effects of the regional liberalization of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) in the form of harmonization and mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) for testing procedures. The theoretical part of the paper is framed in terms of a heterogeneous firms approach. This...

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Industrial Competitiveness of the Auto Parts Industries in Four Large Asian Countries : The Role of Government Policy in a Challenging International Environment

Doner, Richard F.; Noble, Gregory William; Ravenhill, John - 2012

Rationalization and stabilization following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s combined with the expansion and liberalization of regional and global trade to create significant parts industries in China, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea. Conventional policies of stabilization and...

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Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins

Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe; Kassa, Woubet; Lartey, Abraham - 2025

This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction data at the firm-product level with bilateral information on non-tariff measures within a...

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North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade

Disdier, Anne-C??lia; Fontagn??, Lionel; Cadot, Olivier - 2014

Recent years have seen a surge in economic integration agreements (EIAs) and the development of non-tariff measures (NTMs). As a consequence, a growing number of EIAs include provisions on NTMs. However, little attention has been given in the literature to the effects of NTM liberalization in...

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The Data Chase : What's Out There on Trade Costs and Nontariff Barriers?

Bagai, Shweta; Wilson, John S. - 2012

has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on trade facilitation over the past several years to catalogue data …

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Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade : A Framework for Analysis

Maskus, Keith E.; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Wilson, John S. - 2000

There has been increasing use of technical regulations as instruments of commercial policy in the context of multilateral, regional, and global trade. These nontariff barriers are of special concern to developing countries, which may bear additional costs in meeting mandatory standards. Many...

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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels circa 1947

Bown, Chad P.; Irwin, Douglas A. - 2016

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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Is the WTO Passe?

Bagwell, Kyle; Bown, Chad P.; Staiger, Robert W. - 2015

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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