Market access Tariffs and non tariff barriers

With formal tariffs already so low, negotiators will focus largely on non tariff barriers such as regulatory barriers.

Tariffs have fallen, although non tariff barriers and preferential agreements have been on the rise.

With the reduction in tariffs, non tariff barriers are increasingly becoming front stage market access concerns.

Tariffs and non tariff barriers are highly relevant to market access, but subsidies and exchange rates also affect market access.

For example, the Trade Map analysed present export markets and provided market specific information on, for instance, tariffs and non tariff barriers.

Non Tariff Barriers

The markets of industrialized countries are blocked by protectionist tariffs and by non tariff barriers, which impede access to them by the rest of the world.

As in all previous rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Uruguay Round led to the elimination of tariff and non tariff trade barriers.

A successful Doha Round will reduce and eliminate tariffs and other barriers on farm and industrial goods.

A successful Doha round will reduce and eliminate tariffs and other barriers on farm and industrial goods.

Trade in textiles and clothing is still subject to considerably higher tariffs than other industrial goods, and these tariffs are therefore serious barriers to textiles and clothing exports.

It will also take up non tariff barriers.

Their exports today face a variety of barriers in their major markets, including non tariff trade barriers and other non tariff measures.

7. As for non agricultural products, we call for reduction or, as appropriate, removal of non tariff barriers, tariff peaks, high tariffs and tariff escalation to enhance market access, in particular for products of export interest to developing countries.

In the case of manufactured products, which accounted for nearly 60 per cent of world trade, it had been agreed to improve market access, reduce tariffs by means of a formula to cut higher tariffs first, and to revert to the question of non tariff barriers.

Non tariff barriers (e.g. quotas, sanitary and phytosanitary barriers) also make it hard to plan ahead.

So long as developed countries do not fully liberalize their markets by reducing high tariffs and removing non tariff barriers to trade, developing countries will continue to face decreased access to markets in rich countries.

The agricultural sector is protected through high tariffs, tariff picks, tariff escalation and non tariff barriers in many developed countries, and market access is often denied to products from developing countries, including landlocked developing countries.

In this regard it is urgent to eliminate high tariffs, tariff picks, tariff escalation, non tariff barriers, export subsidies and to substantially reduce trade distorting domestic support for protecting the agricultural sector of developed countries.

Methodologies, Classifications, Quantification and Development Impacts of Non Tariff Barriers

Non tariff barriers acted as major barriers to exports from developing countries and should be addressed in the WTO negotiations.

Furthermore, the EU s non discriminatory tariffs are fully applicable to only nine trading partners.

(i) By the use of tariff or non tariff barriers and

With regard to EPPs, given the difficulties in capturing some of these in the HS and the low tariffs that often prevail, it may prove more productive to focus the discussions and negotiations largely on non tariff barriers.

While both parties aim to eliminate remaining tariffs on bilateral trade, they are particularly eager to reduce the thicket of non tariff barriers mainly competing technical and sanitary standards and regulations that have stifled development of the bilateral economic relationship.

A number of other areas of WTO work are relevant to the distribution sector, namely trade facilitation, SPS measures, TBT, non tariff barriers, subsidies and tariffs, all of which give rise to complex questions and the need for further analysis.

Item 3. Methodologies, classifications, quantification and development impacts of non tariff barriers (NTBs)

Rules on priority of access and transparent and non discriminatory access tariffs are essential in this context.

Developing countries must have the right to implement trade polices, including tariffs and other import barriers, which promote and protect local agriculture, rural livelihoods, and food security.

Urged that the remaining non tariff barriers to intra PTA trade be dismantled immediately

People like me who have been cheerleaders for international integration in trade and finance, as well as for reductions in tariffs and other barriers, have cited three benefits

While quantitative restrictions have been banished, properly identifying, defining, classifying and disciplining a plethora of non tariff barriers and market entry barriers pose a major challenge.

Tariffs and Tortillas

41. Non tariff barriers (NTBs) in the Asia and Pacific region demonstrate some interesting features.

The greatest obstacles to achieving those goals are the tariffs, subsidies and barriers that isolate the people of developing nations from the great opportunities of the twenty first century.

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

When progress is not being made, non tariff barriers grow like weeds in response to domestic interests.

on Tariffs and Trade, 1995

Tariffs and Trade for 1995

Neither racial barriers nor barriers of class must exist.

V. and R. M. Stern 1997, Measurement of Non Tariff Barriers , OECD Economics Department Working Paper No.179.

Belarus is striving to lift barriers and limitations in the field of trade and has taken a decision to start negotiations on its accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Information barriers

7.25 There are no legal barriers to the participation of women in Non Government Organizations or civil society organizations.