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Facilitating India-Pakistan trade through the land route

Taneja, Nisha; Dayal, Isha; Bimal, Samridhi - 2016

Improvements in the land route between India and Pakistan can help lower transaction costs which can play in important role in realizing the trade potential between the two countries. Connecting India and Pakistan by the land route offers gains not only to the two countries but would spread over...

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Making (small) firms happy : the heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2016

procedures mainly benefit small firms, the simplification of documents and automation tend to favor large firms' trade. This is … particular), other chapters in the TFA reduce the scope for corruption at borders, making large firms less reluctant to serve …

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Transportation and trade interactions : a trade facilitation perspective

Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2017 - This version: March 2017

Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the...

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Lessons learned and challenges ahead for the WTO Trade Monitoring exercise

Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Diakantoni, Antonia - 2020 - Manuscript date: 10 December 2019

A little over a decade has passed since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008. Shortly after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank, an internal Secretariat Task Force was established by the WTO Director-General to monitor the trade-related developments associated with...

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Helping SMEs internationalise through trade facilitation

Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Sorescu, Silvia - 2019

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in generating economic activity and employment in developing and developed countries. However, partly due to remaining at-the-border trade costs, SMEs continue to be less represented in international trade – as direct exporters...

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Ongoing trade facilitation improvement: Its impact on export-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises in Indonesia

Tambunan, Tulus Tahi Hamonangan - 2013

Trade facilitation refers to all measures that can be taken to facilitate cross-border trade flows, but there is no standard formal definition of trade facilitation. This paper examines whether export-oriented MSMEs have access to trade facilitation and how helpful trade facilitation is in...

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Reduced time at customs through implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would be a significant boost to intra-African trade for AfCFTA countries

De Melo, Jaime; Sorgho, Zakaria; Wagner, Laurent - 2023

monitorable provisions (e.g. the publication of information, advance rulings, appeal or review of decisions, transparency, and … border agency cooperation) aimed at reducing time in customs. The paper draws on the OECD indicators of the state of … customs for a large sample of 160 countries. Implementing the TFA could be a significant complement to the AfCFTA's objectives …

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Estimation of economic welfare gains from trade facilitation in the Andean Community

Jenkins, Glenn P.; Nazif, Mehmet - 2023

Border procedures around the globe can act as barriers hindering international trade. Another impact of these procedures relates to their economic resource costs. In this study, using a microeconomic framework of international trade, the potential economic gains are estimated for reductions in...

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Trade Facilitation Indicators: The Impact on Trade Costs

Moïsé, Evdokia; Orliac, Thomas; Minor, Peter - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2011

This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the economic and trade impact of specific trade facilitation measures in OECD countries. Twelve trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to the main policy areas under negotiation at the WTO,...

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Trade Facilitation Indicators: The Potential Impact of Trade Facilitation on Developing Countries' Trade

Moïsé, Evdokia; Sorescu, Silvia - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

, the simplification and harmonization of documents, the streamlining of procedures and the use of automated processes. The …

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