Quantitative methods for assessing the effects of non-tariff measures and trade facilitation
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چکیده
Non-tariff measures are pervasive. In the area of merchandise trade, although tariffs have fallen worldwide, there has been no shortage of bureaucratic imagination in conceiving new non-tariff measures, or in turning existing regulatory instruments to protectionist ends. In the area of services trade, there is also a growing realisation that domestic regulatory regimes designed to address legitimate market failures may have incidental but unwarranted effects on services trade.
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