OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index 2026: Policy Trends was prepared by a team comprising Francesco Felici, Frédéric Gonzales, Laura Kuusela, Armine Manasyan, Ana-Maria Muresan, Irene Olivan Garcia, and Vassilis Vouras, under the guidance and supervision of Marion Jansen, Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, and John Drummond, Head of the Trade Policy Division. Spela Berlizg, Matteo Fiorini, Jasmin Joksimovic, Benjamin Nikolov, and Gustavo Ribeiro de Macedo provided valuable inputs. Caitlin Boros, Hilary Gaboriau, Cem Mehmethanoglu, Michèle Patterson, and Marc Regnier prepared the report for publication and dissemination. Laëtitia Christophe provided administrative assistance.
The OECD is grateful to the following persons for their support with the regulatory data collection for this update of the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index: Fandi Achmad, Kallista Nadia Adrianne, Ricardo Altamirano Sedeño, Toshihide Ban, Emma Boulonnois, Lisa Marie Breyer, Henrique Caporali, Michał Czykierda, María Alejandra Gonzalez Pinto, Eva-Helena Hillak, Oded Israely, Marcell Koncsik, Hazel Koseoglu Cankurtaran, Liam McGrath, Ben Morgan, Eileen Murphy, Benjamin Nikolov, Heewan Noh, Aditi Pandey, Jessica Pineda Silva, Thanh-Nha Quach, David Roucek, Maarja Saluste, Nadezhda Skotnikova, Natnicha Sutthivana, and Jingru Wang.