Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should … social benefit and producer protection. Inefficiency and distributional effects are consistent with producerprotecting trade …

Duplication, delays or discrimination in CAPs can significantly increase trade costs, and this risk is reflected in the … growing importance of CAPs in WTO discussions and bilateral and regional free trade agreements. This paper conducts an … empirical study of the trade issues that WTO Members encounter with CAPs as described in specific trade concerns (STCs) raised …

international standards in RTAs, and focus on the extent to which RTAs have assimilated the WTO TBT principles for development of … international standards (the Six Principles), arguably the most important decision taken by the TBT Committee over last 20-plus …

Regulatory standards, such as on health and safety, may be subject to strategic bias when a country engages in trade … can vary standards, there will be a tendency to strategic overregulation, which leads to excessive, rather than inadequate … trade. When there is a mixture of horizontal and vertical quality regulations, the profit-shifting motive for protection is …

initially large operator. In these markets, the market process can be expected to solve the trade-off between ensuring …

The WTO TBT Agreement obliges governments to use international standards as a basis for regulation, yet leaves a degree … standards debate at the WTO. In our analysis we first briefly outline the nature of the discipline in the TBT Agreement itself … procedures of setting international standards (the how), and greater emphasis on robust technical/scientific underpinnings of …

Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should … social benefit and producer protection. Inefficiency and distributional effects are consistent with producerprotecting trade …