Tariffs
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How can various data sources inform how we identify, address and resolve market access barriers relating to goods, services and foreign investment?
- To what degree do barriers to procurement affect UK export and investment performance?
- How can we better measure interactions of regulations and how they adapt in response to innovation?
- To what extent can market access barriers in some sectors have wider impact on trade in other sectors?
- What are the economic costs faced by businesses across different sectors, in relation to conformity assessment?
- How can we best evaluate the impact of non-tariff, regulatory measures to trade in goods, including technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures?
- To what extent are intellectual property rights enforced where there is infringement, and how practices differ across sector and business size?
- Does international regulatory cooperation help reduce regulatory barriers to trade in innovative products and services?
- To what extent does the use of voluntary standards facilitate or restrict trade? How does this vary by country and sector?
- To what extent does regulatory divergence affect bilateral trade flows?
- How can we quantify the impact of individual barriers on trade and investment?
- To what extent do the impacts of market access barriers have varying effects according to the size of firm? How does this vary by the type of barrier?
- How can we measure the market access restrictiveness of a country from a UK perspective?
- How does protection of intellectual property by patents, trademarks or design rights affect trade flows in across industries and business sizes?
- Where non-tariff measures behave as fixed costs to trade, how can these be most effectively incorporated in trade modelling?
- How can we best evaluate the trade restrictiveness of different categories of non-tariff measures (at both bilateral and multilateral levels, across goods, services and investment)?
- How can we quantify the impact of good regulatory practice?
- To what extent does the use of international standards particularly facilitate trade with developing, low and middle-income countries?
- What are the main barriers of the UK's bilateral trade with partner countries? How do non-tariff and tariff barriers impact trade?