Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of … the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed …

The WTO Secretariat has published a new information note warning of possible increases to trade costs due to COVID-19 … disruptions. The note examines the pandemic’s impact on key components of trade costs, particularly those relating to travel and … transport, trade policy, uncertainty, and identifies areas where higher costs may persist even after the pandemic is contained. …

sharply and for longer than the rest of the world. The report demonstrates the vital role the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement … (TFA) can play in boosting output and facilitating world trade by simplifying, modernizing and harmonizing the movement …Without direct access to a sea or ocean and isolated from the world’s largest markets, landlocked developing countries …

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 …