Non Tariff Barriers

(i) By the use of tariff or non tariff barriers and

Market access Tariffs and non tariff barriers

It will also take up non tariff barriers.

Their exports today face a variety of barriers in their major markets, including non tariff trade barriers and other non tariff measures.

Improving market access involved not only tariff reduction but also relaxation of non tariff barriers and rules of origin.

However, more work is needed to find or create the appropriate tariff headings and to address non tariff barriers.

Methodologies, Classifications, Quantification and Development Impacts of Non Tariff Barriers

NAMA It was recognized that all countries have a positive interest in seeking the reduction of tariff peaks and tariff escalation, as well as non tariff barriers.

Categories used in the WTO's most recent inventory of non tariff

The Doha Ministerial Declaration (DMD) called for the reduction or, as appropriate, elimination of tariff and non tariff barriers to EGS.

Tariff and non tariff barriers on trade among African countries often remain a major obstacle to increased intraregional or subregional trade.

7. As for non agricultural products, we call for reduction or, as appropriate, removal of non tariff barriers, tariff peaks, high tariffs and tariff escalation to enhance market access, in particular for products of export interest to developing countries.

The negotiations should take a balanced view of both tariff and non tariff measures, and also maintain the spotlight on technology transfer.

There was need for the reduction and or elimination of export subsidies, domestic support, tariff peaks and escalation, and non tariff barriers.

CATEGORIES USED IN THE WTO's MOST RECENT INVENTORY OF NON TARIFF MEASURES

We call for better access to markets, in particular preferential markets with lowered tariff and non tariff barriers to trade with industrialized countries.

Tariff and non tariff barriers in developed countries, combined with the non implementation of commitments undertaken with respect to development financing and debt alleviation for developing countries, further aggravate the situation.

Item 3. Methodologies, classifications, quantification and development impacts of non tariff barriers (NTBs)

State management of foreign trade was based exclusively on the application of the internationally accepted means and instruments of tariff and non tariff regulation.

Nevertheless, scope remains for the liberalization and rationalization of tariffs in non agricultural goods, particularly for the removal of tariff bias, tariff escalation and tariff peaks affecting developing country exports in their major markets.

The agricultural sector is protected through high tariffs, tariff picks, tariff escalation and non tariff barriers in many developed countries, and market access is often denied to products from developing countries, including landlocked developing countries.

In this regard it is urgent to eliminate high tariffs, tariff picks, tariff escalation, non tariff barriers, export subsidies and to substantially reduce trade distorting domestic support for protecting the agricultural sector of developed countries.

Negotiating Group on Market Access, Overview of Proposals Submitted, Non Tariff Measures , WTO doc.

Urged that the remaining non tariff barriers to intra PTA trade be dismantled immediately

He urged the developed countries to remove tariff and non tariff barriers and to abolish subsidies which hindered the import of commodities from the developing countries.

As in all previous rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Uruguay Round led to the elimination of tariff and non tariff trade barriers.

Tariffs have fallen, although non tariff barriers and preferential agreements have been on the rise.

These opportunities also include some specific export subsidies, non actionable subsidies and certain tariff increases.

41. Non tariff barriers (NTBs) in the Asia and Pacific region demonstrate some interesting features.

Finally, subparagraph 31(iii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration deals with the reduction or, as appropriate, elimination of tariff and non tariff barriers to environmental goods and services.

quot (b) Trade distorting policies and practices, including tariff and non tariff barriers, tariff escalation and obstacles to competition influence negatively the ability of developing countries to diversify their exports and undertake the requisite restructuring of their commodity sector

With the reduction in tariffs, non tariff barriers are increasingly becoming front stage market access concerns.

Non tariff barriers (e.g. quotas, sanitary and phytosanitary barriers) also make it hard to plan ahead.

Demonstrated conformity to those standards and norms can offer enhanced market access, while non compliance can pose an effective non tariff barrier.

In 2003, the average US tariff on imports from LDCs was almost three times as high as the average tariff on non preferential imports into the US market (1.59 ).

(b) Ad hoc expert groups an ad hoc expert group will be convened on methodologies for estimating tariff equivalents of non tariff measures and implications for developing countries (1994).

To this end, the scope of the World Trade Organization should be extended through the negotiation of future global arrangements that reduce subsidies and both tariff and non tariff barriers.

Countries of every sort will face requests to do their part to overcome hurdles to a new global trade accord. Tariff and non tariff barriers will need to come down.

Removing tariff and non tariff barriers, eliminating subsidies and improving and diversifying supply are the proposed solutions for resolving the problem they are well known and need no further elaboration.

While many developing countries had liberalized their trade regimes, sometimes at great social, political and economic cost, the champions of free trade had raised their tariff and non tariff barriers.

(b) Trade distorting policies and practices, including tariff and non tariff barriers, tariff escalation and obstacles to competition have a negative effect on the ability of developing countries to diversify their exports and to undertake the requisite restructuring of their commodity sector

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

When progress is not being made, non tariff barriers grow like weeds in response to domestic interests.

For that purpose, their improved access to markets and the elimination of tariff and non tariff barriers to their exports, for example those involving environmental or other conditionalities, must be expedited.