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Enhancing Market Openness Through Regulatory Reform in the People's Republic of China

19-Dec-2008

This study analyses the People’s Republic of China’s trade policy environment with a focus on trade-related regulations and their role in supporting China’s market openness. The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to make China’s regulatory framework more market-oriented and trade-and-investment friendly.

Aircraft Sector Understanding : Cape Town Convention (CTC) Contracting Parties Qualifying for a CTC Discount

09-Dec-2008

Appendix III to the Aircraft Sector Understanding (ASU) provides for a discount from the minimum premium rate in the case a state fulfills the conditions set out in Article 22 of that Appendix.

Peer Review Process

03-Dec-2008

Members of the OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (ECG) have agreed the following enhanced peer review process to monitor their implementation of the two OECD Recommendations on anti-bribery measures and on the environment.

Mobilising resources for development?

01-Dec-2008

Governments should crack down on tax evasion to raise tax revenues as part of broader efforts to help maintain the flow of aid to developing countries during the global economic downturn, said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría in a speech at the UN International Conference on Financing for Development.

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.

Agreement on Untied Official Development Assistance [ODA] Credits Transparency

24-Nov-2008

OECD Countries agreed on the week of the 19 November 2008, to extend for a further two years until end 2010 their agreement to open bidding for projects financed by untied aid credits. 

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.

Export Credits Arrangement 1978-2008: Achievements and Challenges-Continued!

13-May-2008

The Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits, has moved from a relatively simple to a more sophisticated market-reflective instrument, worth commemorating, especially in the light of its continuing relevance and dynamism

Business perceptions of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) facing trade in selected environmental goods and associated services Part I: Survey results

28-Apr-2008

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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