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Non-tariff measures (NTMs), which take many different forms and are less transparent than tariffs, significantly impede trade. Their identification and analysis is timely and important for policymakers committed to an open multilateral trading system. Since the 1960s, trade negotiations have addressed measures that restrict or distort trade in goods. As a result, the growth of market integration is most readily apparent in the growth of trade relative to world income. Yet we are far from a textbook situation in which trade of goods flows freely.
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13-Oct-2008
This study explains expected trade-facilitating benefits and other characteristics of the use of Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDOC) as a conformity assessment procedure and assesses the trade effect of the EU’s adoption of SDOC in three product sectors.
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02-Oct-2008
Successive rounds of global trade liberalisation have substantially reduced tariff barriers to trade, but non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become increasingly prevalent. This paper investigates different methods used to measure the impact of one type of NTM on trade in the agri-food sector.
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