The proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) is a central feature of the world trade policy environment in the last 20 years. This paper provides an empirical study of the extent to which the formation of RTAs has ...

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. ...

The push for simplification of trade processes and procedures in the context of trade facilitation is nothing new. For decades, countries around the globe have been adopting strategies and spending resources to minimize ...

This is ARTNeT Working Paper No. 157, 'The Economic Impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership: What have we learned from CGE Simulation?', by John Gilbert , Taiji Furusawa and Robert Scollay. The Trans-Pacific-Partnership (TPP) ...

<p></p> This is ARTNeT Working Paper No. 164, "Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? Impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers", by Yann Duval, Nora Neufeld and Chorthip ...

An in-depth understanding of trading processes is required in order to identify areas that create bottlenecks in trade and to take measures to remove such bottlenecks. Towards this end, this study examines the trading ...

By Biswajit Nag and Debdeep De <p></p> The current study performs a critical investigation of Rules of Origin (RoO) in selected regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the Asia Pacific region, and has made attempts to study ...

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have ...

Recognizing the need for greater efficiency in procedures related to international trade, this study was undertaken to examine the processes involved in the export of vegetable ghee from Nepal to India and China and in the ...

The global economy has witnessed significant reduction in traditional trade barriers (e.g., tariffs and quotas) in the past years. This trend has been mainly a result of unilateral, regional, and multilateral trade ...