Essays about: "non-tariff"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word non-tariff.
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1. Exploring non-tariff barriers inhibiting indigenous African SMEs’ intra-African trade and internationalisation within Sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on Ghanaian SMEs exporting to Nigeria.
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : The continent is currently, the world’s large free trade area with a 1.2-billion-person marketwhich is expected to double by 2050 is a substantial domestic market with significantopportunities for economic growth. This suggests that promoting intra-African trade (i.e. READ MORE
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2. The economic logic behind the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union: A gravity model estimation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper estimates the impact of the processes of the Eurasian integration in the post-Soviet space that led to the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2015 over the exports of the member countries and their main partners outside the EEU and its predecessor, the Customs Union (CU). Applying the gravity model technique over the dataset for 1995-2015 obtained from UNESCAP Trade Analytics, it is possible to determine the influence of the CU membership of both exporter and importer countries over the exports of the former after controlling for all the economic, cultural and logistical independent variables and two different types of estimation (OLS and Poisson estimator). READ MORE
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3. Overlapping Trade Agreements: Stepping Stones or Stumbling Blocks?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper analyzes the effect of overlapping Trade blocs on Trade Facilitation. Using the time, documents and costs incurred as trade facilitation indicators, simulations show interesting yet important effects of an increase in Regional Trade Agreements on trade costs. READ MORE
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4. The effect of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on EU exports: The case of agri-food products
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : With protectionism on a global rise, non-tariff measures have been an object for public debates and research, as the work of WTO has reduced the possibilities of raising traditional trade restrictions as customs tariffs. Hence governments have turned to non-tariff measures and regulatory standards to fulfill their agendas. READ MORE
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5. Trade barriers on EU's agricultural market : are farmers producing maize and the cocoa- & coffee industry in EU protected by tariffs?
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : The purpose and aim for this thesis is to determine if the European Union uses tariffs on cocoa, coffee and maize and the Common Agricultural Policy in such a way that it protects European farmers and workers on behalf of farmers and workers in less developed countries. The aim has been fulfilled both by a theoretical study and by calculations tariff escalation and the effective rate of protection on the three crops. READ MORE