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Rising Non-tariff Protectionism and Crisis Recovery


Author(s): Trade and Investment Division (TID), Tulus Tambunan, Mitsuyo Ando, Sudip Ranjan Basu, Yann L. Duval, Simon Evenett, Michael Ferrantino, Hiroaki Kuwahara, Mia Mikic, Martin Molinuevo, Swapna Nair, Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Benjamin Shepherd, Chorthip Utoktham, Martin Wermelinger
Economic Sector(s): (1) Global, regional and multisectoral economic and social development strategies and policies; (2) Monetary and financial issues and policies; (3) National development planning; (4) Global trade policies; (5) Trade in commodities and manufactures; (6) Trade in services, including tourism
ESCAP Reference No.: ST/ESCAP/2587
Division/Office: Trade and Investment
Published Date: 2 December 2010
Country: {Non-country Specific Publication}
Hard Copy Price: N/A


Most papers in this volume are a result from the Research Workshop "Rising non-tariff protectionism and crisis recovery" which was held on 14 and 15 December 2009 as part of the Macao Regional Knowledge Hub (MARKHUB) workshop series and was organized by the secretariats of ESCAP, UNCTAD and WTO. MARKHUB research workshops were the main modality of the Macao Regional Knowledge Hub project funded by the Government of Macao, China and implemented by the Trade and Investment Division of ESCAP from 2006 to 2010. This volume includes nine chapters; some were written specifically for the workshop, while some resulted from the ongoing research on broader topics. While these chapters do not exhaust all relevant questions on non-tariff protectionism, they provide a good inroad into the problem and they confirm once again that despite the popularity of non-tariff protection among policymakers, this area is under-researched, in terms of the quality and quantity of data, as well as the assessment of impacts. The old areas where non-tariff protectionism has been used to limit trade are now being enriched by new instruments (mostly belonging to "behind-the-border" types) and also targeting new linkages of trade such as climate change, environmental protection, labour standards, or protection of the public in a variety of areas (health, public morals, etc.).




Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Acronyms and abbreviations

Introduction: Rising non-tariff protectionism and crisis recovery
Mia Mikic
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A snapshot of contemporary protectionism: how important are
the murkier forms of trade discrimination?

Simon J. Evenett and Martin Wermelinger

The pervasiveness of non-tariff measures in ASEAN – evidences
from the inventory approach

Mitsuyo Ando and Ayako Obashi

The global economic crisis and rising NTMs – is South-South
trade a viable solution

Rajan Sudesh Ratna

The rise of non-tariff protectionism and recovery from the global
economic crisis – the Indonesian story

Tulus T.H. Tambunan

Trade costs and facilitation in APEC and ASEAN: delivering
the goods?

Ben Shepherd

Beyond Trade Facilitation: Impact of the Domestic Business
Environment on Export Competitiveness in Asia and the Pacific

Yann Duval and Chorthip Utoktham

Unilateral carbon border measures: effectiveness and alternatives
Swapna Nair

Protectionism in services during the global crisis – a (trade) war
in shallow trenches?

Martín Molinuevo

Methodological approaches to the quantification of non-tariff
measures

Michael J. Ferrantino

UNCTAD initiatives on non-tariff measures – some results from
a pilot project

Sudip Ranjan Basu and Hiroaki Kuwahara



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