Market access barriers and non-tariff measures can appear through a variety of regulatory, legislative or procedural routes, carrying significant costs to businesses or otherwise prohibiting or restricting trade. Research in this area should aim to improve measurement of trade barriers and how they arise, what their real business impact is, and the extent of actionability.
The data, statistics and measurement questions on market access and non-tariff measures are:
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This project aims at understanding which factors stimulate or hamper economic relations between the UK and India. Both countries are important markets for each other's exporters and investors, and it is imperative to unl...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sussex
The project aims to evaluate the impact of non-tariff measures to trade in goods, including technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures, by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the current trade system and evaluating the effects of a Free Trade Agreement between India and the UK.
For the first time in 50 years the UK has 'sovereignty' over its trade policy. It must now decide, for example, how to configure its free trade agreements, its regulations for imported food and digital trade and its trad...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sussex
International trade is of vital importance for modern economies, and governments around the world try to shape their countries' exports and imports through numerous interventions. Given the problems facing trade negotiat...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project aims to evaluate the effects of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and their individual provisions on trade flows, which includes the evaluation of non-tariff barriers, but does not specifically focus on the impact of non-tariff measures to trade in goods.