Economic research and trade policy analysis
Perspectives du commerce mondial et statistiques
Oct 2024
Book
La publication « Perspectives et statistiques du commerce mondial » de l’OMC analyse l’évolution récente du commerce mondial. Elle contient des ventilations du commerce des marchandises et du commerce des services commerciaux par secteur et par région, ainsi que des renseignements détaillés sur les principales économies commerçantes. La publication du rapport coïncide avec celle des dernières statistiques commerciales trimestrielles Read More
Economic Implications of Data Regulation
Balancing Openness and Trust
Sept 2024
Book
Cross‑border data flows are the lifeblood of today’s social and economic interactions, but they also raise a range of new challenges, including for privacy and data protection, national security, cybersecurity, digital protectionism and regulatory reach. This has led to a surge in regulation conditioning (or prohibiting) its flow or mandating that data be stored or processed domestically (data localisation). However, the economic implications of these measures ar Read More
Enabling global trade in renewable hydrogen and derivative commodities
Nov 2024
Book
Renewable hydrogen and hydrogen-derived commodities – such as ammonia, methanol and e-kerosene — are expected to play an important role in the transition to low-carbon energy because they are essential to decarbonize sectors such as heavy industry and transport. Jointly produced by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the WTO, this publication highlights the critical role of sound, coherent strategies in promoting the use of r Read More
Trade for Peace Programme
Jan 2025
Book
Can the flow of goods, services, and ideas build bridges where conflict once prevailed? If so, under whatcircumstances? The World Trade Organization (WTO) stands for a predictable, rules-based system based on the principle of non-discrimination. When the predecessor to the WTO – the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade – was established some 70 years ago, conflict among nations was at an historic low, following World War II. In the changed global Read More
Services provisions in regional trade agreements: Stumbling blocks or building blocks for multilateral liberalization?
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Multilateralizing Regionalism
Jan 2009
Chapter
A remarkable feature of the recent wave of regional trade agreements (RTAs) is the inclusion of a trade in services component in many agreements. At the end of 2006, the WTO counted fifty-four such service accords, of which only five predate the conclusion of the Uruguay Round.2 The rising interest in service trade agreements reflects a number of developments. First, as tariffs have come down, policymakers have turned their attention to other barriers Read More
Remerciements et avertissement
Nov 2020
Chapter
Le Rapport sur le commerce mondial 2020 a été établi sous la responsabilité générale de Xiaozhun Yi, Directeur général adjoint de lOMC, et de Robert Koopman, Directeur de la Division de la recherche économique et des statistiques. La rédaction du Rapport a été coordonnée par Marc Auboin et Ankai Xu. Les auteurs du rapport sont Marc Auboin, Marc Bacchetta, Cosimo Beverelli, Eddy Bekkers, Kian Cassehgari Posada, Emmanuelle Ganne, John Han Read More
Merchandise and services trade, value (nominal) terms, 2009
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World Trade Report 2010
Jun 2010
Chapter
The US dollar value of world merchandise trade fell 23 per cent in 2009 to US$ 12.1 trillion, down from US$ 16.1 trillion in 2008. Some of this decline was due to changes in trade volumes, while much of the rest can be explained by falling commodity prices in 2009, particularly for oil. After rising to record levels in 2008, world crude oil prices plunged 37 per cent in 2009, from US$ 95 per barrel to US$ 60 per barrel on average. As a result, nominal trade deve Read More
Conclusiones
Jun 2010
Chapter
En el presente informe se han abordado cuatro cuestiones fundamentales relacionadas con el comercio de los recursos naturales. La primera es la forma en que las características económicas esenciales de los recursos naturales y el modo en que se comercia con ellos influyen en la estructura del comercio de este tipo de bienes. En segundo lugar, se ha examinado en qué medida la ausencia de obstáculos al comercio permite asegurar eficazmente el ac Read More
Multiproduct Firms, Tariff Liberalization, and Product Churning in Vietnamese Manufacturing
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Trade Adjustment in Asia
Sept 2019
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Multiproduct firms are the dominant players in international production and trade (Bernard, Jensen, and Schott 2010; Goldberg et al. 2010a). Moreover, these firms are active in alternating their combination of product varieties. In fact, Bernard, Jensen, and Schott (2010) have documented a frequent change in the product mix in the United States (US), where almost 50% of multiproduct firms change their product mix every 5 years. Indeed, firms’ adjustment Read More
Remerciements
Aug 2003
Chapter
Le Rapport sur le commerce mondial a été rédigé sous la supervision de Patrick Low, Directeur de la Division de la recherche économique et des statistiques. Ses principaux auteurs sont Bijit Bora, K. Michael Finger, Marion Jansen, Alexander Keck, Patrick Low, Hildegunn Nordas, Roberta Piermartini et Robert Teh. Les données sur le commerce et les informations sur les droits de douane ont été fournies par les statisticiens de la Division de la recherche écon Read More
Supply chains and trade in value-added
Jan 2013
Chapter
The increasing importance of global supply chains challenges the way statistics on trade are collected. Statistics on international trade flows are measured in gross terms and, hence, record the value of intermediate inputs traded along the value chain multiple times. Trade in global supply chains can be measured using firm surveys, customs statistics that record trade flows under special schemes of tariff reduction or exemption, or the Standard Internationa Read More
Enforcement of Labour Regulation and the Labour Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil
Oct 2019
Chapter
This chapter examines how enforcement of labour regulation shapes the labour market effects of trade. To do so, we focus on the early 1990s Brazilian trade liberalization episode, which was a unilateral and extensive tariff reduction process.
Estimating trade in value-added: Why and how?
Jan 2013
Chapter
Global value chains (GVCs) have become a dominant feature of today’s global economy. This growing process of international fragmentation of production, driven by technological progress, cost, access to resources and markets and trade policy reforms has challenged our conventional wisdom on how we look at and interpret trade and, in particular, the policies that we develop around it. Indeed, traditional measures of trade that record gross flows of good Read More
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