Tariff and non-tariff barriers play important roles in shaping trade policies and economic relationships between countries.

Economists dislike tariffs for a variety of reasons. Like all barriers to market exchanges, they create inefficiency: they ...

KARACHI: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has said that trade barriers are significant impediments to regional growth, as South Asia remains one of the least integrated regions in ...

The Theory of Second Best suggests that introducing new distortions in an imperfect economy can offset existing distortions.

Report notes that major African exporting countries were confronted with significant challenges arising from a difficult ...

Non-tariff barriers in the countries part of the European Union (EU) are impeding India’s trade with the bloc and there is a need to address long-pending issues as a confidence-building measure ...

non-tariff barriers, and statistical purposes. “Following Amir Decree No 98 of 2024, the Integrated GCC Customs Tariff was ...

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on December 19 told European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič that non-tariff barriers were impeding trade and stressed on the need to ...

(Image/Reuters) India has said that the non-tariff barriers are impeding trade with the European Union and has called for addressing the long-pending issues as a confidence building measure.

Indian commerce ministry officials and international representatives discussed strategies to boost exports in key product ...

Restriction' means tariffs have the ability to deter imports by making them more expensive, while 'Reciprocity' refers to the practice of using tariff policy to match ... competitors retaliate with ...

and many of the countries with lower tariffs have non-tariff barriers to U.S. goods, such as the European Union’s “sanitary and phytosanitary” restrictions that exclude many U.S ...