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The WTO Global Trade Costs Index and its determinants
Rubínová, Stela; Sebti, Mehdi - 2021 - Manuscript date: 18 January 2021
This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatorydifferences; and governance quality. The WTO Global Trade CostsIndex is based...
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The benefits of country-specific non-tariff measures in world wine trade
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Lamonaca, Emilia; Nardone, … - In: Wine Economics and Policy 8 (2019) 1, pp. 28-37
During the last decades, significant changes in trade regulations are modifying the global trade of wine. The number of non-tariff measures (NTMs) implemented in the wine sector is relevant: a large number of country-specific NTMs, set in the occasion of trade agreements, have been adopted. The...
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European Union's SPS and TBT measures, gender specific obstacles and agricultural employment
Kareem, Fatima Olanike - 2017
We investigate the implications of EU non-tariff barriers in the form sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures and … technical barriers to trade (TBT) on gender relations in the agricultural labour market between 1995 and 2012. Our results …
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Non-tariff trade policy analysis : an ex-post assessment of the EU-Korea agreement
Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries … specifications, furthermore, point to a negative effect of differences in the number of technical barriers to trade (TBT) applied and … sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) against which trading partners issued complaints at the WTO. …
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Trade costs and agricultural trade in Central Asia
Pomfret, Richard - 2014
Viele zentralasiatische Regierungen verfolgen das Ziel der wirtschaftlichen Diversifizierung, insbesondere im Agrarsektor, allerdings oftmals mit geringer Wirkung. Hohe Handelskosten halten Landwirte, potenzielle ausländische Investoren und andere Akteure davon ab, neue Produkte zu entwickeln,...
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Non-tariff measures and the quality of imported products
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
agreements under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have contributed significantly to the reduction of tariffs among WTO members … their extensive use. Among these measures, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures … types of regulative and standard-like NTMs - TBTs and SPS measures - and the quality improvement of traded products that is …
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Exploring "non-tariff measures black box" : whose regulative NTMs on which products improve the imported quality?
Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021
Regulative non-tariff measures (NTMs), such as technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS … and SPS measures on trade values, volume, unit value and quality are estimated. On average and across all global bilateral … trade, TBTs restrict imports while improving quality significantly. SPS measures stimulate trade and improve the average …
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Quality of goods imports : which role for non-tariff measures?
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Elhami, Payam; Stehrer, Robert - 2021
agreements under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have contributed significantly to the reduction of tariffs among WTO members …. Among these measures, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, in particular, allow …
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Ambiguous protection
Gruendler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021
Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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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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