Trade used to be about goods crossing borders and the instrument of protection was mostly through tariffs. Then there was greater recognition of trade in services, now exceeding the share of goods in global trade. Because of services, the focus of trade protection shifted more towards "behind...

This chapter asesses private sector perception of the level of implementation of various trade facilitation measures

This chapter highlights selected quantitative information from the country case studies, a summary of results of an international expert survey on the implementation costs of selected trade facilifation measures, and their sequencing.

This chapter provides a brief overview of the relevant literature

This chapter is based on the case studies of Bangladesh, China, India, Indoesnia and Nepal

This chapter concludes case studies on trade facilitation measures implementation in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, and Nepal

This paper addresses the regulatory and policy environments conducive for e-commerce to thrive. In particular, as regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to investigate their role in setting the regulatory...