What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform …-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to agriculture. Simulations of multilateral and regional trade agreements … with the OECD METRO model show that positive effects are higher when more countries participate in trade integration …

, associated with improper exploitation of the covered commodities. In each case all trade in the target commodities ought to be …

Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are key instruments to governing international trade, and reflect a balance between … trade constraining and explores ways in which future RTAs can facilitate trade. It finds that market access could be …

, and is the most dynamic sector of world trade. New negotiations under the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services … worldwide. The papers in this volume, produced as part of the OECD Trade Directorate's services project, explore fundamental … issues for the services negotiations: what are the barriers to trade in services? How can those barriers be addressed in …

, notably with the Tourism Satellite Account, a deeper understanding is needed of how tourism trade directly and indirectly … analysing tourism from a trade in value added perspective. It identifies the priority actions to strength the underlying ‘value … chain’ of national statistics needed to build analyses tourism from a trade in value added perspective, and sets out a …

this report. The report also discusses the implications that these findings have for trade rules, and in particular for …