Overcoming Border Bottlenecks: The Costs and Benefits of Trade Facilitation

12-Feb-2009

How do border bottlenecks affect trade and investment flows? How might these bottlenecks be reduced and is the expense involved worth it? These questions and others are examined in this collection of six studies.

November 2008 - Export Credits Meetings

28-Nov-2008

Summary Reports:
of the major meetings that took place on the week of the 17 November 2008.

116th Meeting of the Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (ECG)

104th Meeting of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits

11th Annual Consultation Meeting between OECD Export Credit Committees

38th Meeting of the Participants to the Aircraft Sector Understanding (20 - 21 November 2008)

7th Consultation with the Aviation Working Group (21 November 2008)

OECD countries affirm commitments to aid, open trade and investment markets

26-Nov-2008

OECD countries have reaffirmed their commitments on aid to developing countries and undertaken to abstain from trade protectionism, as part of a concerted drive to shore up the world economy and combat recession.

Major exporters pledge ongoing credit support for developing country imports

24-Nov-2008

Thirty-six exporting countries, including 29 OECD countries plus Brazil, Estonia, India, Israel, Romania, Russia and Slovenia, issued a statement pledging continued export-credit support for international trade deals in line with a call by G20 leaders for emerging and developing economies to retain access to financing for imports in the present financial crisis.

2008 OECD Global Forum on Trade - Rapporteur's Report

18-Nov-2008

The 2008 OECD Global Forum on Trade brought together trade policy makers from OECD countries and a number of emerging economies to discuss global trade policy challenges. The Forum examined two important issues in particular: the impact of emerging economies on recent international market developments and the political economy of trade.

Trade and Environment at the OECD: Key issues since 1991

04-Nov-2008

This paper provides an overview of work on trade and environment in the OECD since 1991 and summarises the main conclusions and policy recommendations arising from that work.

Checklist for Negotiators of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements.

04-Nov-2008

This document provides a checklist on environmental issues for negotiators of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in order to provide guidance to countries wishing to include environmental provisions in RTAs.

How do trade and investment flows and policies affect innovation performance?

04-Nov-2008

There is today a great interest in understanding how governments can promote innovation and the benefits it brings, as evidenced by the discussions at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in 2007. To gain a better understanding of how trade and investment patterns and policies affect innovation performance, and interact with other key policies influencing innovation capacity, the Trade Committee has undertaken a Trade and Innovation Project …

Technical Barriers to Trade: Evaluating the Trade Effects of Supplier's Declaration of Conformity

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.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers and their interrelationships with trade

08-Oct-2008

This paper uses firm-level data to identify FDI spillovers across countries and sectors. A positive interaction is found between trade liberalisation and productivity spillovers.