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Are product standards diverting Indian tea exports? : panel data estimation results

Pradhani, Manash Roy; Chakraborty, Debashis; Ghosh, … - 2026

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Economic Impact of RCEP

Itakura, Ken; Kimata, Yutaro; Urata, Shūjirō - 2026

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Freight margins as European internal duties

Costa, Paolo; Roson, Roberto; Sartori, Martina - 2026

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Reassessing services trade barriers : evidence from Turkish microdata and the STRI framework

Gençosmanoğlu, Ömer Tarık - 2025

This study examines two key challenges in services trade research: the reliability of trade data and the measurement of non-tariff barriers, particularly the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). Using firm-level panel data from Türkiye with fixed effects, we show that international data...

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Reassessing services trade barriers: Evidence from Turkish microdata and the STRI framework

Gençosmanoğlu, Ömer Tarık - 2025

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Deglobalisation in disguise? : Brexit barriers and trade in services

Bhalotia, Shania; Dhingra, Swati; Arnold, Danyal - 2025

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Brexit and non-tariff barriers : effects on UK business investment and productivity

Kaya, Ahmet; Low, Hailey; Millard, Stephen - 2025

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Brexit and non-tariff barriers : effects on UK business investment and productivity

Kaya, Ahmet; Low, Hailey; Millard, Stephen - 2025

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What drives trade policy reform?

Estefania-Flores, Julia; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, … - 2025

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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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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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Quantifying the trade impact of SPS and TBTs with product-level structural gravity

Artuso, Fabio; Clarke, Julian Latimer; Fontagné, Lionel; … - 2026

Non-tariff measures (NTMs), especially sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBTs), have become crucial components of climate, industrial, and regulatory policy, impacting the majority of global trade. However, quantifying their effects on trade is...

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Quantifying the trade impact of SPS and TBTs with product-level structural gravity

Artuso, Fabio; Clarke, Julian Latimer; Fontagné, Lionel; … - 2026

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Agricultural trade and geopolitics : a comparative analysis of China-U.S. and China-Canada trade relations

Fang, Tony; Pracek, Torin; Chen, Jianghua; Chen, Wen-hao - 2026

This paper draws on trade data, academic literature, government reports, and policy documents to contextualize historic trade dynamics and trace the buildup to recent disputes. Using a comparative framework, we analyze how Sino-U.S. and Sino-Canada relations have shaped and continue to shape...

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Addressing regulatory barriers to trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Blyde, Juan S. - 2026

Most barriers to trade in services stem from regulatory measures. This study assesses the degree of regulatory restrictiveness affecting trade in services across Latin America and the Caribbean and the degree of disparities in these measures. It then analyzes the impact of both the level of...

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Addressing regulatory barriers to trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Blyde, Juan S. - 2026

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Counting the costs : a quantitative assessment of Brexit's effect on UK regional economies

Jia, Ningyuan; Dhingra, Swati; Fry, Emily; Hale, Sophie - 2026

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AfCFTA implementation: learnings from value chains and regional blocs : white paper

2026

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Trade policy and access to intermediate inputs : quantifying the welfare costs of a fertilizer shortage

Ghose, Devaki; Fraga, Eduardo; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2026

This paper leverages Sri Lanka's 2021 chemical fertilizer import ban to quantify the costs of restricted fertilizer access for agriculture, trade, and welfare. Leveraging trade and production data, satellite-based yield estimates, and event studies, we document sharp declines in fertilizer...

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Seaweed for development : trade, regulations and standards for inclusive growth : technical cooperation outcome

2026

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Trade in services under regulatory barriers : evidence from UK banking

Bhalotia, Shania; Piton, Sophie; Woods, John - 2026

Barriers to trade in services remain poorly understood. This paper investigates how regulatory barriers affect cross-border lending and deposit-taking by banks. Using confidential bank-level data from the Bank of England, we find that UK-resident banks substantially reduced lending to and...

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The role of non-tariff measures in export competitiveness in the wine industry

Gouveia, Sofia; Macedo, Anthony; Rebelo, João - 2026

Among firms, policymakers, and researchers in trade policy instruments, the resur-gence of protectionism has sparked renewed interest, particularly in non-tariff measures (NTMs) in agri-food industries such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPSs) and tech-nical barriers to trade (TBTs)....

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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. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This paper argues that existing results in the literature are upward biased because of measurement...

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Revisiting the Trade-Creating Effects of Non-Tariff Barriers

Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2023

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

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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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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Managing Import Dependency Risks in Contexts of Polycrises: The Case of Jordan

Ashour, Sara; Luckmann, Jonas; Fröhlich, Christiane - 2025

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Non-tariff measures in services sector : a PPML analysis

Faizi, Bushra; Shah, Mohamed Eskandar; Shirazi, Nasim Shah - 2025

The paper presents an analysis of the tariff equivalent (AVEs) of regulations in the services sector, employing sectoral-level estimates derived from the gravity equation. Our findings indicate that advancements in information and communication technology have diminished the significance of...

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Multi-mode trade policy retaliation

Feinberg, Robert Mark; Nes, Kjersti; Reynolds, Kara M.; … - 2025

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The tariff liberalisation policy nexus with non-tariff measures : panel model evidence in the SA-EU fruit products trade

Muchopa, Chiedza L. - 2025

Higher levels of quota granted can induce and increase exports, but the impact is not the same across all tariff lines. Answers are sought to the question of how the level of exports changes as the quota size of tariff rate quotas changes, thus enabling the investigation of whether unilateral...

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Trade war and some policy alternatives for India

Jaiswal, Himanshu; Ganesh-Kumar, A. - 2025

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The impact of EU trade policies on its textile and clothing imports : a comparison between India, Bangladesh, China, and Vietnam

Sharma, Toni; Bharti, Nalin - 2025

The European Union has implemented various trade policies in the textile and clothing sector, a major global employment generator, over the past three decades. This paper investigates how these evolving policies have impacted the four largest exporters of textiles and clothing to the EU. A...

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Do non-tariff barriers divert trade : a case study of plastic waste export

Siyal, Ghamz-E-Ali; Ahmed, Adeel - 2025

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General equilibrium effects of technical non-tariff measures : evidence from bilateral trade cost estimates

Fernández-Amador, Octavio; Francois, Joseph F.; Vogt, Achim - 2025

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General equilibrium effects of technical non-tariff measures : evidence from bilateral trade cost estimates

Fernández-Amador, Octavio; Francois, Joseph F.; Vogt, Achim - 2025

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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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Patterns of regulatory heterogeneity in international trade : intensity, coverage, and structure

Garcés, Irene; Vogt, Achim - 2025

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Barrier or opportunity? : how trade regulations shape Colombian firms' export strategies

Rosenow, Samuel - 2025

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High tariffs, high stakes : the policy drivers behind firm-level adoption of green technologies

Rosenow, Samuel; Espitia, Alvaro; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2025

Addressing climate change requires green technology deployment. This paper uses firm-level import data in 35 emerging markets to examine how trade policies affect firms’ imports of products associated with solar, wind power, and electric vehicle value chains. Panel estimates show a...

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Protection or protectionism : the effect of technical regulations on input sourcing

Iodice, Irene; Reverdy, Camille - 2025

This paper examines how EU Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) reshape firms’ global supply chains, extending Grossman et al. (2024) to incorporate adaptation costs between sourcing partners. To test the model’s predictions, we construct a novel dataset linking EU TBTs to French firm-level...

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Pesticide regulatory homogeneity and firms' import decisions : evidence from EU-Swiss agri-food trade

Fiankor, Dela-Dem; Shingal, Anirudh - 2025

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Language as a trade barrier in public procurement : evidence from Georgia's policies on English language documentation

Deltas, George; Evenett, Simon J. - 2025

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Drivers of FDI in the EU : regulatory distance and revealed technological advantage

Castelli, Chiara; Davies, Ronald B.; Ghodsi, Mahdi; … - 2025

This study examines the interplay between trade policy, in particular non-tariff measures (NTMs), and revealed technological comparative advantage (RTA) at the NUTS 2 level as drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) over time. Combining data from the Orbis database (Bureau Van Dijk), the NTMs...

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SPS measures and agricultural trade in BIMSTEC : Quantitative Evidence from WTO Notifications

Jaiswal, Himanshu; Ganesh-Kumar, A. - 2025

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Impact of nontariff measures on border crossing time and costs : the case of perishable goods trade in the Central Asia regional economic cooperation region

Ramizo, Dorothea M.; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2025

This study examines the effects of at-the-border and behind-the-border measures on the intraregional perishable goods trade in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation region by combining trade facilitation indicators at the bilateral product level with an extensive dataset of nontariff...

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Transparency as trade policy : evidence from notification timing in TBTs

Iodice, Irene - 2025 - This version - July 23, 2025

This paper quantifies the value of timely WTO notifications for Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs). Using French firm-level export data, I find that advance notice halves the negative impact of TBTs on export participation, by reducing temporary exits and supporting entry, particularly among...

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Drivers of foreign direct investment in the EU : regulatory distance and revealed technological advantage

Castelli, Chiara; Davies, Ronald B.; Ghodsi, Mahdi; … - 2025

This study examines the interplay between trade policy, in particular non-tariff measures (NTMs), and revealed technological comparative advantage (RTA) at the NUTS2 level as drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) over time. Combining data from the Orbis database (Bureau Van Dijk), the NTMs...

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Trends in natural and man-made fibres trade

2025

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Non-tariff and tariff impediments affecting spatial competition between the United States and Brazil for soybean shipments to China

Wilson, William W.; Bullock, David W. - 2025

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Transparency as trade policy : value of advance notifications in technical regulations

Iodice, Irene - 2025 - Original version: July 2025, this version: Oktober 2025

Lack of advance information about regulatory changes in destination markets increases uncertainty over compliance costs. This paper quantifies the value of advance notification using newly compiled WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) timelines matched to detailed French...

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Decoding India's quality control orders

Prabhakar, Prerna - 2025

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It's Not (Just) the Tariffs : Rethinking Non-Tariff Measures in a Fragmented Global Economy

Taglioni, Daria; KEE, Hiau Looi - 2025

As tariffs have declined, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become central to trade policy, especially in high-income countries and regulated sectors like food and green technologies. Although NTMs may serve legitimate goals, they could also sort countries and firms into or out of markets based on...

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