Trade facilitation beyond the multilateral trade negotiations: regional practices, customs valuation and other emerging issues: a study by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade

Edited by Yann Duval

in STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT from United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Abstract: This publication brings together the main research outputs produced by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), and its members and partners, between April 2006 and January 2007. The first chapter introduces the concept of trade facilitation beyond the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations, and it serves both as an introduction and a synthesis of the studies presented in the remaining chapters. Chapters II and III provide an analysis of regional trade facilitation initiatives and the link between trade facilitation and preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Chapter IV is dedicated to rules of origin in PTAs, whose complexity and lack of harmonization across a growing number of overlapping agreements in the Asia-Pacific region is seen as an increasingly significant impediment to trade. Chapters V and VI focus on customs valuation in developing countries, an issue that remains of key concern among importers and exporters but which is not part of the ongoing WTO negotiations on trade facilitation. These chapters are complemented by chapter VII, which provides a comparative analysis of the broader trade facilitation needs of Fiji and a selection of Asian developing countries, building on earlier work of the network. Chapters VIII and IX provide a broader perspective of trade facilitation. Chapter X provides recommendations on arriving at a meaningful multilateral agreement on trade facilitation.

Keywords: Trade facilitation; Doha round of negotiations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Chapters in this book:

Trade Facilitation beyond the Doha round of negotiations , pp 1-25

Yann Duval

A comparative analysis of trade facilitation in selected regional and bilateral trade agreements and initiatives

Patrick Wille and Jim Redden

Trade facilitation measures in South Asian FTAs: an overview of initiatives and policy approaches , pp 83-135

Sachin Chaturvedi

Rules of origin in emerging Asia-pacific preferential trade agreements: will PTAs promote trade and developments? , pp 137-162

William James

Customs valuation in India-identifying trade facilitation-related concerns , pp 163-193

Sachin Chaturvedi

Implementation of the WTO customs valuation agreement in Nepal: an ex ante impact assessment , pp 195-222

Pushpa Rajkarnikar

Trade facilitation and customs valuation in Fiji: a comparative analysis of needs and priorities , pp 223-244

Biman Prasad

Relationship between liberalization in the logistics sector and trade facilitation , pp 245-280

Dariel Sousa and Christopher Findlay

impact of trade costs on trade: empirical evidence from Asian countries , pp 281-310

Prabir De

Prioritizing trade facilitation measures: a note , pp 311-319

Florian Alburo

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