Trade And Regulatory Reform: Insights From Country Experience (industry, Services, And Trade)

As Trade Barriers At The Border Have Fallen Through Successive Trade Negotiations, Domestic Regulation Has Emerged As A Source Of Residual But Potentially Significant Trade Barriers. Recognising The Importance Of Participating In Intensified Global Competition, Countries Increasingly See Regulatory Reform As An Inescapable Policy To Ensure That The Expected Benefits Of Globalisation Are Realised And That Differences In National Regulatory Systems Do Not Become Barriers To International Trade And Investment. In This Light, Oecd Has Undertaken A Broad-ranging Project On Regulatory Reform, For Which Market Openness Is Seen As A Key Objective. The Papers Collected In This Volume Were Presented At A Workshop At Oecd That Aimed To Share National Experiences Of Regulatory Reform And Trade And To Foster Consensus-building On Best Practices. Such Practices Include Enhanced Transparency, Non-discriminatory Due Process, Independence Of Regulators And Active Implementation Of Competition Policy. Other Issues Raised At The Workshop Included The Challenges For Developing Countries In Pursuing Regulatory Reform And Enhancing Market Openness, And Insights For Multilateral Trading Rule-making Emerging From Country Experiences. The Discussions Reveal The Pervasiveness Of The Issues Raised At The Workshop. In Examining The Recent Development Of Regulatory Issues In Trade Policy Making, This Volume Brings New Light To Experiences In Some Parts Of Asia And The Western Hemisphere As Well As To The Growing Links Among Trade, Regulation And Governance. Ch. 1. Trade And Regulatory Reform: Insights From The Oecd Country Reviews And Other Analyses / Keiya Iida -- Pt. I. Experience And Best Practices With The Transparency Principle. Ch. 2. Transparency Issues And The Wto Working Party On Domestic Regulation / Dale B. Honeck ; Ch. 3. The Experiences Of The Imf And Its Membership With Transparency And Related International Financial Reforms / Anne Mcguirk ; Ch. 4. Transparency: A Business Perspective / John Serocold ; Ch. 5. Consumer Interest In Regulatory And Trade Policies / Jill Johnstone, Naja Felter And Marcus Lenzen -- Pt. Ii. Experience And Best Practices In Applying The Principles Of Non-discrimination, Avoiding Unnecessary Trade Restrictiveness And Competition. Ch. 6. International Trade As A Vector In Domestic Regulatory Reform: Discrimination, Cost-benefit Analysis And Negotiations / Joel P. Trachtman ; Ch. 7. Regulatory Reform In Infrastructure: The Indian Experience / S. Sundar -- Pt. Iii. Experience And Best Practices In Internationally Harmonised Measures And Recognition Of Foreign Equivalent Measures. Ch. 8. Deeper Integration In Services Trade In The Western Hemisphere: Domestic Regulation And Mutual Recognition / Sherry M. Stephenson ; Ch. 9. Harmonisation And Recognition: What Have We Learned? Some Preliminary Reflections / Kalypso Nicolaidis ; Ch. 10. Internationally Harmonised Measures And Recognition Of Foreign Equivalent Measures / Julian Arkell -- Pt. Iv. Future Perspectives. Ch. 11. Keynote Speech: Trade, Regulation And Governance / Jonathan T. Fried ; Ch. 12. Regulatory Diversity And Trade And Investment Liberalisation / Michael Trebilcock ; Ch. 13. The Approach To Economic Reform In China: An Outline / Larry Lee ; Ch. 14. A Personal View Of The Issues / Julian Arkell -- Annex: List Of Speakers And Discussants. Selected Papers From The Workshop Regulatory Reform And The Multilateral Trading System: Insights From Country Experience, Held 7-8 December 2000. Includes Bibliographical References. This Conference Proceedings Presents National Experiences Of Regulatory Reform And Trade In Order To Foster Consensus-building On Best Practices. Such Practices Include Enhanced Transparency, Non-discriminatory Due Process, Independence Of Regulators And Active Implementation Of Competition Policy.