Lack of regulatory transparency is a major and recurrent obstacle for businesses seeking to trade internationally. This … study finds that transparency mechanisms applied at different stages of the design, finalisation and implementation of …

heightened uncertainty about supply availability together with friction among trading partners. Poor transparency can amplify and … compound the effects of restrictive trade policies. This paper explores the issue of transparency with respect to the use of … available. After explaining how transparency is operationalised in the conduct of trade policy and what its benefits are for …

the Inventory research, about policy transparency. What information about use of export restrictions do governments …

opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of … deepen existing multilateral transparency commitments (“WTO-plus”), but expand them to new areas that do not have precedents …

place conditions on exporting is on the rise. Transparency can help mitigate the negative effects of export restrictions by … develops a checklist of good practice in transparency which can serve as a tool for self-evaluation by governments and for … promoting better and more consistent transparency practices in this area. The items of the checklist are drawn from norms and …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

comply with the principles of transparency and non-discrimination and facilitate foreign trade operations and international … costs, risks and barriers to competition facing firms. The main report and the business survey conclude that transparency …