Analysis of Non-Tariff Barriers of Concern to Developing Countries

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“…In addition, the removal of tariffs may increase non-tariff barriers that Vietnamese firms usually fail to satisfy, such as the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and the Technical Barriers to Trade. This makes it difficult for Vietnam's goods to be exported (OECD, 2005), resulting in accelerated trade deficits as imports exceed exports, hampering the country's economy. To this end, while the Vietnamese government has provided support for GMS cooperation, whether or not the country can expect trade gains is still an open empirical question that warrants investigation…”

Section: Regional Economic Cooperation and Trade -A Review Of The Literaturementioning

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Economic Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

Nguyen²,

Vu³

et al. 2020

Journal of Economic Integration

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This paper investigates the impact of regional economic cooperation between Vietnam and its partners during the 2000-2015 period, focusing on the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). Overall, the GMS represents a significant portion of Vietnam's trade portfolio. China is the dominant trading partner in the GMS, exhibiting strong influence over Vietnam's trade, especially its imports. However, using the gravity model of trade, we find that Vietnam has not benefited from GMS cooperation, as exemplified by its significant trade deficit, particularly with China. We further find that human capital enhancement and financial development are key factors to facilitate Vietnam's trade, and mitigate its trade deficit with other GMS member countries. To this end, this study provides some important policy implications for the Vietnamese government as well as policymakers in other countries, when trading with larger partners in the context of regional economic cooperation.

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Section: Regional Economic Cooperation and Trade -A Review Of The Literaturementioning

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Economic Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

Nguyen²,

Vu³

et al. 2020

Journal of Economic Integration

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“…Therefore, compared to other regions Africa's regional economic communities have relatively low performance in intraregional trade andover 80% of Africa's exports are still destined for markets outside Africa (Geda and Seid, 2015). Some literature indicates that tariff and non-tariff barriers are responsible for the high cost of trade and the lower performance of developing countries in the world trade (OECD, 2005;Linders et al, 2008). However, recently non-tariff barriers have relatively higher impacts on trade performance of countries because tariffs on international trade are generally becoming lower as countries have been progressively liberalized joining World Trade Organization (WTO), and regional and bilateral trade agreements (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2013;WTO, 2012).…”

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The impacts of institutional quality and infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade

Jiang

Borojo

2019

Economics

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The authors examine the impacts of quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000–2014. Aggregate indicators are derived for the quality of economic institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure using principal component analysis. The findings disclose that intra-Africa and overall Africa's trade robustly determined by the quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure. The estimates also indicate that the marginal effect of the quality of institutions, physical and communication infrastructure on trade flow appears to be increasing in GDP per capita. In contrast, the marginal effect of border and transport efficiency on trade decreases in GDP per capita. The authors compute the simulation of improving each indicator to the best performer in the sample. Their findings are robust to estimation method conducted to account for potential endogeneity.

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Why Developing Countries Have Failed to Increase Their Exports of Agricultural Processed Products

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The article uses the case study of coffee, tea and cocoa to analyse whether tariff escalation constitutes a barrier to market access that thwarts diversification efforts of developing countries into exports of value-added agricultural processed products. It also examines the extent to which non-tariff barriers act as market access barriers that constrain developing countries from developing their exports of agricultural processed products. Our analysis shows that tariff escalation is not the main barrier; rather it is the prevalence of non-tariff barriers (including domestic non-tariff barriers) that limits the ability of developing countries to increase their agricultural processed exports. This has important policy implications in terms of the emphasis that trade negotiators and policy planners should place on addressing non-tariff barriers.JEL codes: F01; F10; F13; Q17; Q18.

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Analysis of Non-Tariff Barriers of Concern to Developing Countries

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Economic Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

Economic Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

The impacts of institutional quality and infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade

Why Developing Countries Have Failed to Increase Their Exports of Agricultural Processed Products

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