Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation
This paper compares the predicted trade impacts of a successful Doha Round with the trade effects of actions aimed at reducing domestic trade costs for traders in developing countries and the world as a whole. We show that a relatively small reduction in trade costs will generate trade impacts that are larger than what is likely to emerge even from a relatively ambitious Doha Round market access outcome. This illustrates the importance of complementing market access commitments with measures to reduce trade costs in developing countries--which is the objective of the trade facilitation negotiations in the Doha Round--and additional aid for trade to assist countries in covering the costs of improving trade-related procedures and processes.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | EN |
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2010
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| Subjects: | Trade Policy, International Trade Organizations F130, International Law K330, International Linkages to Development, Role of International Organizations O190, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5840 |
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| Summary: | This paper compares the predicted trade impacts of a successful Doha Round with the trade effects of actions aimed at reducing domestic trade costs for traders in developing countries and the world as a whole. We show that a relatively small reduction in trade costs will generate trade impacts that are larger than what is likely to emerge even from a relatively ambitious Doha Round market access outcome. This illustrates the importance of complementing market access commitments with measures to reduce trade costs in developing countries--which is the objective of the trade facilitation negotiations in the Doha Round--and additional aid for trade to assist countries in covering the costs of improving trade-related procedures and processes. |
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