Trade Facilitation: Defining, Measuring, Explaining and Reducing the Cost of International Trade - Hardcover

Sourdin, Patricia; Pomfret, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857937421 ISBN 13: 9780857937421

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This up-to-date and informative book provides a comprehensive treatment of the costs of trading across borders and of trade facilitation policies.

While traditional tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade have been reduced, international trade continues to involve higher costs in money and time than domestic trade. These include not only transport costs, that are determined by distance and commodity characteristics, but also at-the-border and behind-the-border costs which can be reduced by appropriate policies. Research on trade costs has flourished since the turn of the century, and this book by Patricia Sourdin and Richard Pomfret, takes stock of our increased knowledge of the nature and magnitude of trade costs, analyzing why they are high and how they can be reduced to increase the gains from trade.

Trade Facilitation will appeal to economists and policy makers at the national level and in multinational institutions, researchers and postgraduate students interested in international trade and trade policy, as well as students in international business.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Sourdin, The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, Italy and Richard Pomfret, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Adjunct Professor, The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857937421
• ISBN 13: 9780857937421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176