Assessing the Doha Round: Market access, transactions costs and aid for trade facilitation

Bernard Hoekman and Alessandro Nicita

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2010, vol. 19, issue 1, 65-79

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: market access; Aid-For-Trade; trade facilitation; trade costs; WTO; Doha Round; trade negotiations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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