Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
June 2000 - Members of the World Trade Organization have decided provisionally to exempt electronic delivery of products from customs duties. There is growing support for the decision to be made permanent. Is this desirable? Some countries in the World Trade Organization initially opposed WTO's decision to exempt electronic delivery of products from customs duties, out of concern for the revenue consequences. Others supported the decision as a means of securing open trading conditions. Mattoo and Schuknecht argue that neither the inhibitions nor the enthusiasm are fully justified. First, even if all delivery of digitizable media products moved online - an unlikely prospect - the revenue loss for most countries would be small. More important, however, the prohibition of customs duties does not ensure continued open access for electronically delivered products and may even prompt recourse to inferior instruments of protection. Barrier-free electronic commerce would be more effectively secured by deepening and widening the limited cross-border trade commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and by clarifying and strengthening certain GATS disciplines. This paper-a product of Trade, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to improve trade policy for goods and services. It is part of a larger project on trade in services supported in part by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development. Aaditya Mattoo may be contacted at amattoo@worldbank.org.
Commodities --- Cross-Border Trade --- Customs --- Customs Duties --- Debt Markets --- E-Business --- Economic Theory and Research --- Electronic Commerce --- Emerging Markets --- European Union --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Services --- Free Trade --- Importing Country --- International Economics & Trade --- International Trade --- Law and Development --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market Access --- National Treatment --- Preferential Trading Arrangements --- Preferential Treatment --- Private Sector Development --- Public Sector Development --- Recourse --- Tariff Reductions --- Trade --- Trade and Services --- Trade Diversion --- Trade Law --- Trade Policies --- Trade Policy --- Trade Regime --- Transport --- Transport and Trade Logistics --- World Trade Organization
Choose an application
The countries of the South Pacific have struggled to generate sustainable economic growth since their independence. Interventionist policies have failed in the past here, as they have in all other regions. Business and government leaders in this region are now beginning to acknowledge - as has happened in many other developing country regions over the past two decades - that major reforms are needed to put their economies onto a higher growth path. This study examines the growth record of key Pacific island economies and identifies the reasons for their relatively poor performance. It then looks at the process of globalization that is affecting those and indeed all economies increasingly; and the role the WTO has played in that process.
Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Local Commerce --- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Organization) --- World Trade Organization. --- Biśva Bāṇijya Saṃsthā --- Dėlkhiĭn Khudaldaany Baĭguullaga --- DTÖ --- Dünya Ticaret Örgütü --- Munaẓẓamat al-Tijārah al-ʻĀlamīyah --- O.M.C. --- OMC --- ʻOngkān Kānkhā Lōk --- Organisation mondiale du commerce --- Organização Mundial do Comércio --- Organización Mundial de Comercio --- Organización Mundial del Comercio --- Organizația Mondială de Comerț --- Organizzazione mondiale del commercio --- Organizzazione mondiale per il commercio --- Qaṅgkār Bāṇijjakamm Bibhab Lok --- Sāzmān-i Tijārat-i Jahānī --- Shi jie mao yi zu zhi --- SOT --- Světová obchodní organizace --- Svitova orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ torhivli --- Światowa Organizacja Handlu --- Tổ chức thương mại thế giới --- Viśva Vyapāra Saṅgaṭhana --- Vsemirnai︠a︡ torgovai︠a︡ organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- VTO --- W.T.O. --- Welthandelsorganisation --- World Trade Organisation --- WTO --- منظمة التجارة العالمية --- 世界貿易組織 --- 世界贸易组织 --- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization) --- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Council --- APEC --- A-Tʻae Kyŏngje Hyŏmnyŏkchʻe --- Ya-Tʻai ching ho tsu chih --- Aziatsko-tikhookeanskoe ėkonomicheskoe sotrudnichestvo (Organization) --- ATĖS --- Mecanismo de Cooperación Económica Asia Pacífico --- 亞太經濟合作組織 --- Cooperación Económica en Asia Pacífico (Organization) --- Diẽ̂n đàn hợp tác kinh té̂ châu Á--Thái Bình Dương --- Papua New Guinea --- Oceania --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Papua Niugini --- Papua-Neuguinea --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- Papua Nugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua Niu Gini --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Islands of the Pacific --- Commerce. --- Commercial policy. --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Te Moana Nui --- Economic growth --- oceania --- papua new guinea --- asia pacific economic cooperation (organization) --- commercial policy --- foreign economic relations --- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation --- Developing country --- National treatment --- Tariff --- World Trade Organization
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|