Do Bilateral and Regional Approaches for Reducing Technical Barriers to Trade Converge Towards the Multilateral Trading System?

30-Oct-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 58. This paper examines provisions regarding “technical barriers to trade” in selected bilateral and regional trade agreements and reviews to what extent such provisions go beyond the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.

The impact of pro-competitive reforms on trade in developing countries

06-Jun-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 54. This report proposes an analysis of the mutually reinforcing relationship between trade, investment and competition policies and how together they impact trade in developing countries. Moreover, the paper further examines pro-competitive reforms in key services sectors and the extent to which trade agreements can promote them through the experience of the WTO telecoms Reference Paper.

Business perceptions of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) facing trade in selected environmental goods and associated services Part II: Findings of ten country cases

19-Sep-2007

OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper 2007-02 Part I&II. This report documents the incidence, and impact of, non-tariff measures that are perceived to act as barriers to trade in seven sectors of environmental goods and associated services.

2007 Sector Understanding on Export Credits for Civil Aircraft

05-Sep-2007

The Participants to that Sector Understanding decided in 2005 to review its provisions and Brazil joined these discussions. A revised Sector Understanding on Export Credits for Civil Aircraft came into force on 1 July 2007

The interaction between investment and services chapters in selected regional trade agreements

22-Jun-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No.55. This report analyses the interactions between the investment and services chapters of 20 regional trade agreements; identifies four major types of interaction and then looks at the implications for levels of investment protection and liberalisation.

A new OECD Recommendation has been adopted by the OECD to address environmental issues relating to projects backed by officially supported export credits

12-Jun-2007

12-June-2007

The OECD Council has adopted a revised Recommendation on Common Approaches on the Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits. This new Recommendation builds on experience gained in implementing the previous version, which is accordingly superseded, and provides for stronger environment-related requirements for export deals to qualify for export credit support from OECD governments' Export Credit Agencies.

Export processing zones: Past and future role in trade and development

04-Jun-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 53.  This paper on Export processing zones provides an overview on the current trends surrounding EPZs, a review of the economic costs and benefits of EPZs and an analysis from the rules perspective that focuses on the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

Expanding international supply chains: The role of emerging economies in providing IT and business process services

29-May-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 52.  Services offshoring remains an elusive phenomenon. This paper takes a closer look at the increasing role of China, India, the Philippines and the Czech Republic in supplying business process services and IT services to OECD markets.

Modal estimates of services barriers

20-Apr-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 51.  This paper presents improved approaches to measurement of services barriers by using alternative weighting methods and improved econometric specifications.

Services trade and domestic regulation

18-Apr-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 49.  This paper argues that regulatory measures affect the fixed cost of entering a market as well as the variable costs of servicing that market.