Trade and Regulatory Reform : Insights from Country Experience 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 wh