Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation

• Tác giả: Bernard Hoekman
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 351.82 Public administration
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 244268
• Chủ đề: 1. International Law K330; 2. International Linkages to Development; 3. International Trade Organizations F130; 4. Role of International Organizations O190; 5. Trade Policy

Tóm tắt

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.