Post-Uruguay Round Tariff Regimes [electronic resource]: Achievements and Outlook /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Trade Committee.Content Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1999.
Two of the most significant success stories of post-war trade diplomacy and multilateral trade negotiations that have occurred under the auspices of the GATT (now the WTO) have been the massive reductions in tariffs, and the establishment of non-discriminatory tariffs as the principal means of trade protection. When leaders from around the world gather in Seattle, Washington at the end of November 1999, a fresh opportunity to continue dismantling tariff barriers will present itself. This book provides trade negotiators with an indispensable tool that will help them formulate their negotiating objectives and strategies in the area of tariffs; it also provides policy analysts with key data that are necessary to define negotiating scenarios and to impute the corresponding impact on trade, employment and growth. Finally, students of international trade will no longer need to labour over obtaining comprehensive, detailed, and comparable tariff-line data and could proceed to apply these to policy issues and options.
Executive Summary -- Introduction -- -Measurement Issues and Sources of Data -- Methodological Approaches to Constructing the Post-Uruguay Round Profiles -- Chapter 1. Post-Uruguay Round Tariff Profiles -- -Overall Characterisitcs of the Post-Uruguay Round Tariff Regimes -- Scope of Bindings -- Mean Bound Rates -- MFN versus Bound Rates -- Post-Uruguay Round Tariffs in Agriculture -- Quota Fill Rates -- Overview of Agricultural Tariffs by Country/Zone -- Tariff Indicators -- Tariff Dispersion -- Non-Ad Valorum Duties -- The Information Technology Agreement: Effects on Tariffs -- Chapter 2. Implications for Tariff Policy -- -Products that Remain Unbound -- Products with High Bound Tariff Rates -- Products with Low Bound Tariff Rates -- Products with Moderate Bound Tariff Rates -- Glossary
Chiefly tables, "drawn from UNCTAD's Trade Control Measures Database ... as well as from the World Trade Organization Integrated Database"--p. 11.
Two of the most significant success stories of post-war trade diplomacy and multilateral trade negotiations that have occurred under the auspices of the GATT (now the WTO) have been the massive reductions in tariffs, and the establishment of non-discriminatory tariffs as the principal means of trade protection. When leaders from around the world gather in Seattle, Washington at the end of November 1999, a fresh opportunity to continue dismantling tariff barriers will present itself. This book provides trade negotiators with an indispensable tool that will help them formulate their negotiating objectives and strategies in the area of tariffs; it also provides policy analysts with key data that are necessary to define negotiating scenarios and to impute the corresponding impact on trade, employment and growth. Finally, students of international trade will no longer need to labour over obtaining comprehensive, detailed, and comparable tariff-line data and could proceed to apply these to policy issues and options.
World Trade Organization.
Uruguay Round (1987-1994).
Foreign trade regulation.
Tariff.
International trade.
Economics Commerce