While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural … difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might have been worsened during and after the … global financial crisis. There is a consistent flow of information indicating that trade finance markets have remained …

The paper reviews a number of issues related to the use of currencies in international trade, more than one decade … in off-shore markets. Trade is an important factor in establishing a currency as an international currency, notably by … currency use for international trade and foreign direct investment transactions can even be helpful in achieving the …

There has been virtually no liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to date. Most …

development of their members. The key policy concern of the paper is that the elastic and selective nature of trade remedies may …-four regional trade agreements (RTAs). The RTAs vary in size, degree of integration, geographic region and the level of economic … lead to more discrimination, with reduced trade remedy actions against RTA partners, but a greater frequency of trade …

Based on the first comprehensive mapping of telecommunications provisions telecommunications in regional trade …

Regional Trade agreements (RTAs) are sometimes considered as laboratories in which new types of provisions are … negotiated to address recent trade-related issues. Although the inclusion of gender-related provisions in RTAs is not a recent …

This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues … many goods and services are. As a result, much of the analysis pertaining to trade and trade policy in goods and services … applies with equal force to capital movements. Free trade is typically the best trade policy, no matter whether it is trade in …

In the last ten years, there has been a sea change in trade and related policies in emerging markets. This results from … eliminated and tariffs, now the principal trade instrument, have been rationalized and reduced. Considerable increases in …

In order to ensure transparency and to keep abreast of trade policies in support of sustainability, the WTO Committee … on Trade and Environment (CTE) mandated the WTO Secretariat to compile and collate all environment-related measures … notified to WTO. The database also includes environment-related entries found in Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs). …