COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale

Drawing upon the findings of several trade policy surveillance initiatives, an account is presented here of government resort to trade restrictions and reforms affecting medical goods during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some nations mustere...

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Main Author:	Evenett, Simon J.
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID TRADE RESTRICTIONS TRADE RULE EXCEPTION IMPORTATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES TRADE SURVEILLANCE ADVERSE TRADE RESTRICTIONS MEDICAL GOODS TRADE POLICY DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF PPE PPE TRADE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099709507152227022/IDU0a9f03efd0fb0604d0b0a5ba004ff9e57a1bd http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37716

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spelling	okr-10986-377162022-07-19T05:10:35Z COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale Evenett, Simon J. COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID TRADE RESTRICTIONS TRADE RULE EXCEPTION IMPORTATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES TRADE SURVEILLANCE ADVERSE TRADE RESTRICTIONS MEDICAL GOODS TRADE POLICY DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF PPE PPE TRADE Drawing upon the findings of several trade policy surveillance initiatives, an account is presented here of government resort to trade restrictions and reforms affecting medical goods during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some nations mustered effective public health responses early in the pandemic without resorting to trade restrictions. Some other governments quickly reversed export restrictions once their adverse side effects became evident. However, another group of nations have removed COVID-19 trade restrictions very slowly, if at all. These findings challenge the assumption that existing multilateral rules effectively regulate the crisis-era application of general exceptions to non-discrimination norms for goods trade. While the logic of those exceptions is to prevent multilateral trade obligations impeding public health responses, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that these flawed rules on exceptions have attenuated the contribution of cross-border trade to pandemic response, in particular in those developing countries that source much medical goods from abroad. 2022-07-18T16:00:24Z 2022-07-18T16:00:24Z 2022-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099709507152227022/IDU0a9f03efd0fb0604d0b0a5ba004ff9e57a1bd http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37716 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Working Paper
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topic	COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID TRADE RESTRICTIONS TRADE RULE EXCEPTION IMPORTATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES TRADE SURVEILLANCE ADVERSE TRADE RESTRICTIONS MEDICAL GOODS TRADE POLICY DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF PPE PPE TRADE
spellingShingle	COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID TRADE RESTRICTIONS TRADE RULE EXCEPTION IMPORTATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES TRADE SURVEILLANCE ADVERSE TRADE RESTRICTIONS MEDICAL GOODS TRADE POLICY DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF PPE PPE TRADE Evenett, Simon J. COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale
description	Drawing upon the findings of several trade policy surveillance initiatives, an account is presented here of government resort to trade restrictions and reforms affecting medical goods during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some nations mustered effective public health responses early in the pandemic without resorting to trade restrictions. Some other governments quickly reversed export restrictions once their adverse side effects became evident. However, another group of nations have removed COVID-19 trade restrictions very slowly, if at all. These findings challenge the assumption that existing multilateral rules effectively regulate the crisis-era application of general exceptions to non-discrimination norms for goods trade. While the logic of those exceptions is to prevent multilateral trade obligations impeding public health responses, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that these flawed rules on exceptions have attenuated the contribution of cross-border trade to pandemic response, in particular in those developing countries that source much medical goods from abroad.
format	Working Paper
author	Evenett, Simon J.
author_facet	Evenett, Simon J.
author_sort	Evenett, Simon J.
title	COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale
title_short	COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale
title_full	COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale
title_fullStr	COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale
title_full_unstemmed	COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale
title_sort	covid-19-era trade policy interventions affecting medical goods : form, frequency, duration, and scale
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099709507152227022/IDU0a9f03efd0fb0604d0b0a5ba004ff9e57a1bd http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37716
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COVID-19-Era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods : Form, Frequency, Duration, and Scale

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