Trade and Regulatory Reform [electronic resource]: Insights from Country Experience /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2001.
As trade barriers at the border have fallen through successive trade negotiations, domestic regulation has emerged as a source of residual but potentially significant trade barriers. Recognising the importance of participating in intensified global competition, countries increasingly see regulatory reform as an inescapable policy to ensure that the expected benefits of globalisation are realised and that differences in national regulatory systems do not become barriers to international trade and investment. In this light, OECD has undertaken a broad-ranging project on regulatory reform, for which market openness is seen as a key objective. The papers collected in this volume were presented at a workshop at OECD that aimed to share national experiences of regulatory reform and trade and to foster consensus-building on best practices. Such practices include enhanced transparency, non-discriminatory due process, independence of regulators and active implementation of competition policy. Other issues raised at the workshop included the challenges for developing countries in pursuing regulatory reform and enhancing market openness,  and insights for multilateral trading rule-making emerging from country experiences. The discussions reveal the pervasiveness of the issues raised at the workshop. In examining the recent development of regulatory issues in trade policy making, this volume brings new light to experiences in some parts of Asia and the Western hemisphere as well as to the growing links among trade, regulation and governance.
CONTENTS; Chapter 1. Trade and Regulatory Reform: Insights from the OECD Country Reviews and Other Analyses; Part I: Experience and best practices with the transparency principle; Chapter 2. Transparency Issues and the WTO Working Party on Domestic Regulation; Chapter 3. The Experiences of the IMF and Its Membership with Transparency and Related International Financial Reforms; Chapter 4. Transparency: A Business Perspective; Chapter 5. Consumer Interests in Regulatory and Trade Policies
Part II: Experience and best practices in applying the principles of non-discrimination, avoiding unnecessary trade restrictiveness and competitionChapter 6. International Trade as a Vector in Domestic Regulatory Reform: Discrimination, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Negotiations; Chapter 7. Regulatory Reform in Infrastructure: The Indian Experience; Part III: Experience and best practices in internationally harmonised measures and recognition of foreign equivalent measures; Chapter 8. ""Deeper"" Integration in Services Trade in the Western Hemisphere: Domestic Regulation and Mutual Recognition
Chapter 9. Hamornisation and Recognition: What Have We Learned? Some Preliminary ReflectionsChapter 10. Internationally Harmonised Measures and Recognition of Foreign Equivalent Measures; Part IV: Future perspectives; Chapter 11. Keynote Speech: Trade, Regulation and Governance; Chapter 12. Regulatory Diversity and Trade and Investment Liberalisation; Chapter 13. The Approach to Economic Reform in China: An Outline; Chapter 14. A Personal View of the Issues; Annex; List of Speakers and Discussants
Proceedings of a workshop held Dec. 7-8, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references.
As trade barriers at the border have fallen through successive trade negotiations, domestic regulation has emerged as a source of residual but potentially significant trade barriers. Recognising the importance of participating in intensified global competition, countries increasingly see regulatory reform as an inescapable policy to ensure that the expected benefits of globalisation are realised and that differences in national regulatory systems do not become barriers to international trade and investment. In this light, OECD has undertaken a broad-ranging project on regulatory reform, for which market openness is seen as a key objective. The papers collected in this volume were presented at a workshop at OECD that aimed to share national experiences of regulatory reform and trade and to foster consensus-building on best practices. Such practices include enhanced transparency, non-discriminatory due process, independence of regulators and active implementation of competition policy. Other issues raised at the workshop included the challenges for developing countries in pursuing regulatory reform and enhancing market openness,  and insights for multilateral trading rule-making emerging from country experiences. The discussions reveal the pervasiveness of the issues raised at the workshop. In examining the recent development of regulatory issues in trade policy making, this volume brings new light to experiences in some parts of Asia and the Western hemisphere as well as to the growing links among trade, regulation and governance.
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