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

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...

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Main Authors:	Hoekman, Bernard, Nicita, Alessandro
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 International Law K330 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5840

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description	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.
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author	Hoekman, Bernard Nicita, Alessandro
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title	Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation
title_short	Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation
title_full	Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation
title_fullStr	Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation
title_full_unstemmed	Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation
title_sort	assessing the doha round: market access, transactions costs and aid for trade facilitation
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Assessing the Doha Round: Market Access, Transactions Costs and Aid for Trade Facilitation

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