Transparency in non-tariff measures: An international comparison.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ing, Lili Yan; Cadot, Olivier; Walz, Janine
- Source
- World Economy; Mar2018, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p884-912, 29p, 4 Diagrams, 10 Charts, 4 Graphs
- Subject
- TRANSPARENCY in government
NONTARIFF trade barriers
TRADE regulation
INTERNATIONAL trade
COMMERCIAL treaties
ECONOMIC competition
- Language
- ISSN
- 03785920
The article examines transparency in non-tariff measures (NTM) in trade policy across countries and trade provision across regional trade agreements (RTA). Topics discussed are three generations of transparency requirements at the World Trade Organization (WTO), sanitary and phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade measures, and variation across income and regional groups correlated with government transparency score of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index.