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Standards and technical regulations which govern the admissibility of imported goods into an economy raise costs of exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries. Yet standards may also have a positive side, such as...
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further indicate that the market of health products is dominated by a small number of developed countries. Looking at tariffs … overall level of tariffs is low, but far from being zero, especially in the last three country groups. Finally, studying the … tariffs on health products in preferential trade agreements between developing countries, the results show that the tariff …
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This paper outlines the technical foundations and the market structure for international trade in information …
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The purpose of this paper is to measure and analyse how intensively CIS countries apply nontariff barriers (NTBs) to restrict foreign trade in regard to certain products and total trade. Five CIS countries were selected for this analysis, in particular Ukraine, Russian Federation, Moldova,...
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have to focus on the areas that relate to improvement of market access, i.e. removing restrictions to trade, harmonizing … effects of better market access, and the other employing a growth model to estimate the wider effects of European institutions …
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government-imposed, may result from non-competitive market structures, or from the absence of appropriate regulation. The latter …
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foreign providers of services. We conclude that a reduction of NTBs and improved access to the EU market would bring …
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The WTO TBT Agreement obliges governments to use international standards as a basis for regulation, yet leaves a degree of flexibility with respect to the choice of standard, and the manner of its use. This interplay between obligation and flexibility has given rise to tension in various fora of...
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industries than prior to the Single European Market programme, while the share of intra-industry trade is unaffected. …
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