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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade

Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015

This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional...

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Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - In: Handbook of commercial policy : vol 1A-1B, (pp. 3-108). 2016

represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have …, how liberalized is world trade? Our analysis documents the extent of cross-sectional heterogeneity in applied commercial … policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy. …

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TBT and Trade Facilitation Agreements : leveraging linkages to reduce trade costs

Ayral, Serra - 2016 - Manuscript date: 01 June 2016

World Trade Report. At the same time, many WTO Agreements already contain provisions aimed at facilitating trade procedures … 2015 World Trade Report refers to "border agency cooperation" as the main TFA implementation challenge identified by …

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Trade, testing and toasters : conformity assessment procedures and the TBT Committee

McDaniels, Devin; Karttunen, Marianna - 2016 - Manuscript date: June 2016

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...

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How does the regular work of WTO influence regional trade agreements? : the case of international standards and the TBT Committee

McDaniels, Devin; Molina, Ana Cristina; Wijkström, Erik - 2018 - Manuscript date: 23 March 2018

This paper illustrates how the work of the WTO's standing committees is fuelling regulatory cooperation between WTO members, and inspiring RTA negotiators. We explore, as a case study, how the WTO TBT Committee has shaped provisions on international standards in RTAs, and focus on the extent to...

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Strengthening India-Nepal economic relations

Taneja, Nisha; Prakash, Shravani; Bimal, Samridhi; … - 2019

transit facility through its territory to access sea ports for trading with rest of the world. Given this, the main objective …

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The WTO Global Trade Costs Index and its determinants

Rubínová, Stela; Sebti, Mehdi - 2021 - Manuscript date: 18 January 2021

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatorydifferences; and governance quality. The WTO Global Trade CostsIndex is based...

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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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Ambiguous protection

Gründler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021

Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...

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I've been everywhere (except Mexico) : investor responses to NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions

Davies, Ronald B.; Liebman, Benjamin H.; Tomlin, Kasaundra - 2015

We investigate the response of US trucking firms to the removal of barriers to crossborder trucking under NAFTA. This was done via a program implemented in 2007, cancelled in 2009, and reinstated in 2011. We find that, unsurprisingly, the program's start resulted in lower stock returns,...

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