A Survey of Non-Tariff Measures in the East Asia and Pacific Region
This report seeks to give a multifaceted view of non-tariff issues facing countries in the East Asia and Pacific region both vis-a-vis their most important export markets as well as intra-regionally. While the first perspective is important today g...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9065965/survey-non-tariff-measures-east-asia-pacific-region-policy-research-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8038 |
| Summary: | This report seeks to give a multifaceted
view of non-tariff issues facing countries in the East Asia
and Pacific region both vis-a-vis their most important
export markets as well as intra-regionally. While the first
perspective is important today given the high dependence of
East Asian and Latin American countries on the markets of
the EU, the US and Japan, the second is important in the
context of countries' efforts to bring about ever
closer regional integration. A large part of liberalization
efforts have in the past focused on reducing tariff barriers
to facilitate the integration of goods markets across the
world and within particular regions. However, countries
which were more serious about integration also recognized
early on the importance of eliminating trade-reducing
measures other than tariffs, so-called non-tariff measures
or NTMs, which, if not already present, often sprung up
precisely where tariffs were reduced. Country studies which
draw on firm level surveys and interviews with government
agencies and exporters' associations in East Asia and
Latin America are presented in Part II of this report. |
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