Quantitative methods for trade-barrier analysis

Part 1 Policy issues involving nontariff barriers: informational needs for corrective policy action the costs and consequences of protectionism implications of NTBs for trade and development policies NTBs and the Uruguay Round the trade potentials of the socialists countries. Part 2 Quantitative approaches to trade barrier analysis: the nontariff measure inventory approach economic effects of NTBs - a general analysis methods for quantifying specific nontariff barriers special purpose estimation procedures. Part 3 Simulating the effects of trade liberalization: basic features of partial equilibrium trade models the data and parameters illustrative policy applciations. Part 4 The implications of NTB inventory studies: the global importance of nontariff measures the sectorial coverage of nontariff measures national variations in nontariff measure usage nontariff measures in developing countries. Part 5 The trade and economic consequences of NTBs: studies based on the inventory approach studies of agricultural trade barriers studies relating to textiles and clothing studies relating to ferrous metals studies relating to other manufactured products. Appendices: country-product classification for trade barrier analysis approximating the effective rate of protection tariff protection in developed and developing countries a glossary of nontariff measures the Punta del Este Ministerial declaration.