Paving the Road to Global Markets

While tariff barriers have drastically reduced around the world, non-tariff barriers, including demonstrating compliance with technical regulations, standards, and conformity assessment procedures, remain a significant obstacle to trade could be particularly daunting for small medium enterprises (SMEs). International standards been recognized as an effective way reduce (TBT). This research examines impact of Canada's participation in international development (measured by committee/subcommittee participation) on SMEs' likelihood export. Drawing national SME survey, results analysis showed that, after controlling potentially confounding firm owner attributes, has positive exports is associated engaging more SMEs trade.