The main goals of this document are: Identifying 7 industrial products’ sectors of current or potential significance in terms of trade between the EU and Brazil (priority sectors); Taking into consideration, in this analysis, the interests of EU…
In September 2015, the United Nations member states agreed on a new agenda on sustainable development that sets a range of gender related goals that shall be achieved by the international community in the following years. Among them, the women’s…
Voluntary sustainability standards are part of the new challenges faced by the multilateral trading system. Regulatory barriers to trade, especially technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitary measures, apply to several sectors such as trade…
Despite resiliency in meeting challenges of past and recent economic crises as well as major natural disasters (Arfani and Hapsari 2013), Indonesia’s export-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs) —such as the ones forming the three clusters in…
Significant reductions in tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as advances in information technology over the last decades have allowed countries to expand their production process beyond national borders, reflecting the increasing relevance of…
1.Motivation: The increasing relevance of time as a trade barrier;
2.The relationship between time and Global Value Chains (capital intensive goods are more sensitive to time);
3.Can the TFA promote a new wave of fragmentation?;
4.How the TFA is…
Trade facilitation has been in WTO agenda since 1996 and only in 2013 WTO Members were able to conclude an agreement to deal with that important issue to guarantee a freer international trade.
From a marginal topic in the Doha Round negotiations,…
Monograph Series: Technical Dimension of Trade 2011
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