Premium
Transparency in non‐tariff measures: An international comparison
Author(s) -
Ing Lili Yan,
Cadot Olivier,
Walz Janine
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/twec.12552
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , technical barriers to trade , tariff , ranking (information retrieval) , phytosanitary certification , international trade , business , international economics , product (mathematics) , index (typography) , economics , construct (python library) , trade barrier , economic growth , computer science , geometry , computer security , mathematics , machine learning , world wide web , programming language
Abstract We construct an index of non‐tariff measures ( NTM ) transparency based on notifications to the WTO under the sanitary and phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade agreements, the existence of a trade portal giving ready access to trade‐relevant regulations, the existence of NTM data collected under the MAST classification, and the results of an experiment conducted between 2015 and 2016 where we asked for specific regulations concerning the import of a particular product on behalf of a private company. The resulting country ranking shows that OECD countries are, by and large, the most transparent, but also shows that ASEAN countries score well compared to other developing countries.