全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?

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来源类型	FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series
规范类型	论文
	Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?
	Jaime de Melo; Mariana Vijil
发表日期	2014
出处	Climate Change and Sustainable Development
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels but not at the multilateral level, where countries have been unable to agree on an approach to reduce barriers to trade. For EGs, tariffs and NTBs are highest for low-income countries and low for high-income countries. First-order estimates of the import response to a 50% reduction in tariffs for low-income countries suggest an increase in imports of around 4%. For ESs, estimates draw on the comparison of an Environment Services Liberalization index calculated across modes and services sub-sectors. The limitations of this ordinal index coupled with the inadequacy of the UN CPC list where services are defined in an exclusionary manner so that they cannot appear on two lists, casts greater uncertainty as to the informational content of the commitment measures presented here which, at best, indicate bindings on market access and national treatment rather than actual policies. It would appear nonetheless that at least as great, and probably greater commitments took place in the environmental sectors (as defined by the CPC) both multilaterally and regionally than for ‘other’ services with the same pattern across income groups: greater commitments observed for HIC than for MICs and LICs although it is widely recognized that GATS commitments by HICs largely amounted to consolidated members’ unilateral services policies. North-South Regional Trade Agreements resulted mostly in commitments by the Southern partners indicating greater prospects for reducing barriers to trade in a regional than in a multilateral context. *** Suggested citation: de Melo, J., M. Vijil, (2014), 'Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?', Nota di Lavoro 36.2014, Milan, Italy: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
特色分类	F18;Q56
关键词	Environmental Goods Environmental Services Doha Round Tariff Reductions
URL	https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/barriers-to-trade-in-environmental-goods-and-environmental-services-how-important-are-they-how-much-progress-at-reducing-them/
来源智库	Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/118278
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jaime de Melo,Mariana Vijil. Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?. 2014.

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