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 …

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 …

trade costs. Growing interest in the economic and societal impacts of AI has also prompted interest in the trade … implications of this new technology. While AI technologies have the potential to fundamentally change trade and international … business models, trade itself can also be an important mechanism through which countries and firms access the inputs needed to …

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

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

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 …

This paper presents the scoring and weighting methodology for calculation of the services trade restrictiveness indices … reconcile the complexity of services trade restrictions with binary scoring, non-binary measures are broken down to multiple …

This paper contributes new empirical evidence on the relationship between productivity and international trade. This is … of the relationship between trade in intermediate and final products and productivity in countries at different stages of … economic development. The results show that various forms of trade integration strongly support productivity in emerging …

This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for transport and courier services. The STRIs …, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. This report presents the first vintage of indicators for transport and courier ….43), with little variation across countries. A preliminary assessment of restrictiveness in cross-border trade in the sector …