Metrology, essential to trade, industry and society

Optical Metrology in the Transportation Industry

Optical metrology has experienced an escalation in research, development, and applications within the transportation industry. With advances in digital imaging devices, evolution in computer technologies, including algorithms and software, and development of novel loading and stressing schemes, it has become an indispensable technique that enables the transportation industry to develop, design,...

On Trade Barriers to China’s Textiles Industry

Firstly we shall introduce the development situation of China’s textile industry from international trade perspective, and then analyze the current international trade competition focusing on international trade barriers which consist of tariff and non-tariff barriers respectively. Finally we propose that increasing non-tariff barriers to China’s textile exportation are due to lower tariff, tra...

Determinants of Iran’s bilateral intra-industry trade in pharmaceutical industry

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)

The Nexus between Economic Growth and Intra-Industry Trade

According to traditional trade theories, foreign trade affects economic growth via several channels such as knowledge and technology spillover, improvement of resources allocation, increasing productivity and competitiveness. Within the framework of new trade theories, the effect of foreign trade on economic growth is ambiguous, and this effect depends on the combination of the different effect...