Non-tariff Measures

In recent decades, trade negotiations have addressed measures that restrict or distort international trade in goods. Tariffs are the more commonly known obstacle to trade flows, but OECD is also active in identifying and analysing non-tariff restrictions on the free flow of trade. These less apparent restrictions are called non-tariff measures or NTMs. Read more ...

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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.

A Review of Methods for Quantifying the Trade Effects of Standards in the Agri-Food Sector

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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