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A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 …
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present evidence that countries around the world still apply tariffs and nontariff measures that increase prices and limit the … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement as a starting point, can be linked to improved handling of health …
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We develop a new Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR) using data from the IMF's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is an empirical measure of how restrictive official government policy is towards the international flow of goods and services. MATR is...
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This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is strongly correlated with existing measures of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in...
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environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …
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towards later stages of development. Recently the US government has moved against the trend by imposing tariffs on China … Chinese government retaliated by introducing tariffs on US produced goods. For the time being, the result of this trade war on …
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