Workshop on NTMs

 

A member of the Local Technical Assistance team attended an "APEC Capacity-Building Workshop on Quantitative Methods for Assessing Non-tariffs Measures and Trade Facilitation" held in Bangkok during October 8-10, 2003. The workshop revolved around the quantification (measuring and modeling) and impacts of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) in trade and services, and trade facilitation. Following documents of the workshop are available in hard copy format in VERN project office.

 

 

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Obtaining Data on the Incidence of NTMs

 

1

BIJIT BORA, World Trade Organization

Keynote Address — The Quantification and Impact of Non-Tariff Measures

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2

WILLIAM DONNELLY and DIANE MANIFOLD, US International Trade Commission

A Multisource Inventory of NTMs for Analytical Purposes

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3

RONALD FISCHER, Universidad de Chile

Effects of Protectionism on Chilean Exporters: An Exploratory Survey

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The Effects of Services-Type Measures

 

4

PHILIPPA DEE, Australian Productivity Commission

Measuring and Modelling the Barriers to Services Trade: Australia’s Experience

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5

SOUMODIP SARKAR, Universidade de Evora

NTMs in Services: Restriction on Movement of Skilled Personnel

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Trade Facilitation

 

6

JOHN WILSON, World Bank, CATHERINE MANN, Institute for International Economics, and TSUNEHIRO OTSUKI, World Bank

Trade Facilitation and Capacity Building: A Global Perspective Summary

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7

PETER WALKENHORST and TADASHI YASUI, OECD

Benefits of Trade Facilitation: A Quantitative Assessment

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8

VLAD MANOLE, World Bank

WITS (World Integrated Trade Solution) Software Demonstration

PowerPoint Presentation

9

ALAN DEARDORFF and ROBERT STERN, University of Michigan

Empirical Analysis of Barriers to International Services Transactions and the Consequences for Liberalization

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10

DUC NGUYEN-HONG, Australian Productivity Commission

Techniques for Estimating Services Barriers

Technical notes

11

US International Trade Commission staff

Empirical Work in a Trade Policy Environment

PowerPoint Presentation

12

JOHN WILSON and TSUNEHIRO OTSUKI, World Bank

Techniques for Estimating Trade Facilitation Effects

PowerPoint Presentation

 

The Effects of Quota-Type Measures

 

13

RONALD BABULA, US International Trade Commission, SUCHADA LANGLEY, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, AGAPI SOMWARU, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, and SHIVA MAKKI, Ohio State University and US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service

Using Directed Acyclic Graphs and VAR Econometrics to Simulate the Upstream and Downstream Effects of Imposition of an Import Quota: An Application to U.S. Wheat-Based Markets

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The Effects of Standards-Type Measures

 

14

JOHANNES MOENIUS, Northwestern University

The Effect of Technical Standards on Trade Flows: (Why) Is Japan Different?

PowerPoint Presentation

 

Estimating Tariff Equivalents of NTMs, without simulation

 

15

MITSUOYA ANDO, Keio University, and TAKAMUNE FUJII, Aichi University

Hidden Trade Protection: Estimating Tariff Equivalents of Core and Non-Core Non-Tariff Measures in the APEC Member Economies

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16

JUDITH DEAN, MICHAEL FERRANTINO and ROBERT FEINBERG, US International Trade Commission

Estimates of the Price Effects of NTMs Using Retail Data at the City Level

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17

JUNGHO YOO, Korea Development Institute

Estimation of Nominal and Effective Rates of Protection

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The Effects of Other Policies

 

18

ANTONI ESTEVADEORDAL, Inter-American Development Bank, and KATI SUOMINEN, University of California – San Diego

A Conceptual and Empirical Assessment of the Rules Determining Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements

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Using Estimates of NTM Impacts in Simulations

 

19

SCOTT BRADFORD, Brigham Young University 

Developed Country Non-Tariff Measure Protection and its Impact on Developed and Developing Countries

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20

THOMAS HERTEL, TERRIE WALMSLEY and KEN ITAKURA, Purdue University

Dynamic Effects of the ‘New Age” Free Trade Agreement Between Japan and Singapore

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21

SOAMIELY ANDRIAMANAJARA and MARINOS TSIGAS, US International Trade Commission

New Estimates of the Effects of NTMs in the Global Economy

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