Regional trade agreements and environment

11-Apr-2007

This report provides an overview of approaches to environmental issues in regional trade agreements and summarises countries' experience in the negotiation and implementation of relevant provisions.

Facilitating adjustment: Sector experiences from agriculture, telecommunications and chemicals

13-Oct-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 41.  How can governments facilitate structural adjustment?  This follow-up to Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation (OECD, 2005)  draws policy implications on (1) benefits of multilateral commitments, (2) government role in domestic reform (e.g. licensing) and state ownership;  subsidies;  and facilitation of information flows, and (3) sequencing through analysis of the tobacco, coffee, telecommunications and chemicals sectors. 

The Australian preferential tariff regime

17-May-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 33.  The purpose of this paper is to consider the preferential trade arrangements available to developing countries exporting into the Australian market. The paper opens with an overview of these arrangements, followed by a detailed statistical review.

The treatment of agriculture in regional trade agreements (RTAs)

08-Mar-2006

OECD has recently completed a study on the treatment of agriculture in regional trade agreements, OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No 15.

In addition, work is under way examining the treatment in RTAs of investment, competition and the environment, as well as a study of the treatment of asymmetries at the regional level.