Rising Non-tariff Protectionism and Crisis Recovery
(ST/ESCAP/2587)



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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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