This paper uses newly released OECD data on services trade restrictions (STRI) to analyse the relationship between … services trade restrictions, cross-border trade in services and trade in downstream manufactured goods. A standard gravity … model is enhanced by the STRI indices in a cross-section regression analysis. Services trade restrictions are negatively …

Services play a more important role in trade and employment in the United Kingdom than in most other OECD countries …. The UK services sector is supported by an open and transparent trade regime, policies that support competition and …, certain barriers to services trade remain. This report sheds light on the role of services trade in the UK economy, describing …

This study provides data on the costs and challenges of implementing trade facilitation measures currently under … developing countries. The study confirms earlier findings that the costs of putting in place and maintaining trade facilitation …

multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. This paper: discusses methodological issues associated with …

This study finds that trade in services contributes to a broader services supplier base that supports competitiveness … in high-technology and high-value added manufacturing. It is shown that with low, but still significant trade costs in … advantage in manufacturing following services trade liberalisation. The impact of services trade liberalisation on trade in …

This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the economic and trade impact of specific trade … facilitation measures in OECD countries. Twelve trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to the … hurdles in the trade procedures of a given country. For OECD countries, the policy areas that seem to have the greatest impact …

Lack of regulatory transparency is a major and recurrent obstacle for businesses seeking to trade internationally. This …

This study analyses linkages between trade and innovation in the chemicals sector, building on past work at the OECD on … trade and innovation. The chemicals sector has a long history of innovation and is a large trading item. It covers very … diverse sub-sectors. This paper analyses and compares different trade and innovation linkages in basic industrial chemicals …

key tool for innovation. Trade liberalisation can play a role in encouraging ICT adoption by fostering competition and by … reducing ICT prices. While the trade in ICT goods has more than doubled since the mid-1990s, the share of trade involving low … trading system produced early successes in the ITA and the negotiations on basic telecommunications at the World Trade …