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2006 cash flow results for officially supported export credits

14-Dec-2007

The OECD Member countries of the Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees submit their cash flow results for officially supported export credits to the OECD Secretariat on an annual basis. The following Tables I, II, III, IV and V represent the 2006 and previous years’ results which are expressed in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

Germany awards OECD's Tangermann Order of Merit

10-Dec-2007

Stefan Tangermann, the OECD's Director of Trade and Agriculture, has been awarded Germany's Order of Merit (First Class) for his outstanding accomplishments as scientist and political adviser.

Structural Change in Fisheries: Dealing with the Human Dimension

30-Nov-2007

These conference proceedings analyse the social issues and policy challenges that arise from fisheries adjustment policies, and how OECD member countries are meeting those challenges.

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.

Effective Targeting of Agricultural Policies: Best Practices for Policy Design and Implementation

25-Oct-2007

Agricultural Policies are dominated by broad measures such as market price support and general payments to all land, animals or farmers. As a result, it is often difficult to associate a particular policy with any specific objective and yet targeting policies to meet such objectives is necessary for improving the efficiency of govenment intervention.

Government support to farmers falls slightly amid higher world food prices

23-Oct-2007

Government support to farmers in OECD countries represented 27 % of total farm receipts in 2006, a slight fall from the 29% share the previous year, according to a new OECD report. The drop was due mainly to rising world food prices rather than changes in policies, as less support was provided to prop up domestic prices.

2007 Sector Understanding on Export Credits for Ships

11-Oct-2007

This Sector Understanding on Export Credits for Ships which came into force on 8 October 2007; it replaces the previous version of that Understanding, in force since 2002.

OECD Regional Meeting on Agricultural Policy Reform, 24-26 September 2007

27-Sep-2007

Meeting organised by the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the OECD's Trade and Agriculture Directorate on 24-26 September 2007 in Bucharest, Romania.

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.




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