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Rising Non-tariff Protectionism and Crisis Recovery
Date
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14-15 December 2009 |
Venue
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Macao, China |
Organizer
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Trade and Investment Division, ESCAP |
Objective
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This workshop is dedicated to the study and discussion of this non-tariff based protectionism affecting developing and the least developed countries of the region. |
Documentation
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Presentations:
Session 1: Methodological Approaches to NTMs
 Michael J. Ferrantino, U.S.InternationalTrade Commission
Session 2: Multi-Agency effort to define and classify NTMs - Definition,
Classification (and Collection) of NTM
Horoaki Kuwahara
Session 3: Non-Tariff Measures: New Results from Firm Surveys and
Official Sources
Sudip Ranjan Basu, UNCTAD and The Graduate Institute,
Geneva
Session 4: Smoke in the Water
Liliana Foletti (UNCTAD-Univ.GE), Marco Fugazza
(UNCTAD), Alessandro Nicita (UNCTAD),
Marcelo Olarreaga (Univ. GE)
Contingency protection in the WTO
Roberta Piermartini, Economic Research and Statistics
Division, WTO
Session 5: The Pervasiveness of Non-tariff Measures in ASEAN:
Evidences from the Inventory Approach
Mitsuyo Ando and Ayako Obashi (Keio University)
The Global Economic Crisis and Rising NTMs: Is South-South
Trade A Viable Option
Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Professor, Centre for WTO Studies,
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
Session 6: Protectionism Unabated: The latest results from Global
Trade Alert
Simon J. Evenett, Universitat St. Gallen
Session 8: Effectiveness of RTA in taming non-tariff barriers
Pornsil Patchrin-tanakul, Deputy Secretary General,
Board of Trade of Thailand
Session 9: Unilateral Carbon Border Measures- Effectiveness
and Alternatives
Swapna Nair, Indian Council for Research on
International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
Session 10: Behind-the-Border Trade Facilitation in Asia-Pacific:
Cost of Trade, Credit Information, Contract Enforcement
and Regulatory Coherence
Yann Duval, Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Trade Costs and Facilitation in APEC and ASEAN:
Delivering the Goods?
Ben Shepherd
Trade Facilitation and Bilateral Trade Flows in Emerging
East Asia: The Role of At-the-Border and Behind-the-Border
Factors
Angelo Taningco, Assistant Professor, De La Salle
University, and Joel Hernandez, Consultant, Asian
Development Bank
Session 11: Protectionism in Services
Gloria O. Pasadilla
Protectionism in services during the global crisis:
a (trade) war in shallow trenches?
Martín Molinuevo, Trade and Investment Division,
UNESCAP
Workshop papers
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Participants
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Programme
Information note for participants
List of participants |
Contact
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Ms. Mia Mikic
Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, ESCAP
Email: mikic@un.org
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Last updated: 5 January 2010 |
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