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Project

Assessment of the impacts of non-tariff measures - NTMs on the competitiveness of the EU and selected partners

Overview:

The 2.5-year research project (2009-2011) NTM-Impact financed by the EU under the 7th framework program aims at collecting and analyzing new data on non-tariff measures (NTMs), particularly on governmental standards and regulations that prescribe the conditions for importing agri-food products into the EU market and into the markets of the main competing players. Furthermore, impacts from EU and trade partner NTMs on least developed country exports are examined.

The project will deliver the following results:

1. An analytical framework for defining measures, methods, products and countries.

2. A data base on NTMs in EU, USA, Canada, Japan, China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Russia and New Zealand.

3. Comparative analyses on the impact of NTMs on agri-food trade of the EU vs. competitors.

4. Policy recommendations from case studies for quantifying NTMs on fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy trade clusters with the EU and competing trade partners.

5. Policy recommendations from case studies on the impacts of EU and trade partner private and public standards in LDCs.

6. Timely dissemination of project results to key stakeholders

The consortium of 21 partners is co-ordinated by CIRAD, Montepellier.

Contribution of ILR to the project:

ILR's main tasks are

Design of the project's analytical framework, based on and adding to the state of current scientific knowledge, clearly specifying desired integration and possible synergies between WP's.

Meat trade cluster case study.

Staff at ILR working on the project:

Simon W. Schlüter

Christine Wieck

Thomas Heckelei
Last updated: Wednesday, October 20, 2010