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This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process analyses conducted in selected Asian countries. It provides a unique set of micro-level information on the nature, as well as the time and cost, of trade procedures involved in...
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This paper explores the trade facilitation performance of India and Mekong countries using a new measure of bilateral … measures that have a significant effect on trade costs, and to prioritize them. The trade costs between India and Mekong … India, China, Thailand, and most of the other India-Mekong countries made more progress in reducing trade costs with each …
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This study undertakes Business Process Analysis (BPA) to help assess the trade processes and procedures. One of the research objectives in BPA is to identify administrative and procedural barriers that unnecessarily impede the participation of more firms and more countries in regional and global...
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This paper presents findings from an initial analysis of new non-tariff trade cost estimates and their determinants, based on a bilateral database of comprehensive trade cost maintained by ESCAP. Results of the non-tariff policy-related trade costs modeling exercise strongly suggest that...
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This chapter is based on the case studies of Bangladesh, China, India, Indoesnia and Nepal …
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Section A of this chapter deals with the role of SMEs in exports while section B details evolution in the use of IT for cargo clearance. Section C examines the impact of IT trade facilitation measures on SMEs. Section D presents stakeholder interviews on the impact of information technology...
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This chapter highlights selected quantitative information from the country case studies, a summary of results of an international expert survey on the implementation costs of selected trade facilifation measures, and their sequencing.
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India has introduced several trade facilitation related measures in the last couple of years. The pro-active strategy …
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This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments under the WTO Agreement … NFSA and that it is possible to leverage existing provisions in the WTO AoA to accommodate these within India's commitments … under the WTO AoA. While India should negotiate to retain the flexibility afforded in the Agreement and argue on specific …
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The outcomes of WTO negotiations under the Doha round, Hong Kong development round and the changing European Union … regulations are likely to place new hurdles on the marine exports emerging from developing economies like India. In the light of … the above, we attempt to discuss the impact of WTO-GATS on the Indian Marine Trade and Service industry, analyze the …
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