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 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 …

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 …

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

&D productivity may be declining in recent years. This study examines how various linkages between trade and innovation work in the … established multinationals, this also contributes to upgrading the R&D capability of emerging economies. Various trade … facilitating measures have been put in place at the international level, including tariff elimination under the World Trade …

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 …

3D printing technologies have attracted the attention of the trade policy community for their potential to disrupt … international trade. It is argued that greater cross-border exchange in design files for local printing may lead to less trade in …, proxied by measures of imports of 3D printers, appears to be complementary to goods trade. On average, an increase of around …

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

discussions on data localisation, be they in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) or in the context of the WTO Joint Statement …