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Trade barriers are a general term that describes any government policy or regulation that restricts international trade. They can take many forms and are classified in two main categories:
WHAT WE ARE DOING? Trade Barriers issue is among one of the four task forces of the Business Council. The Secretary General had meetings with the officials from the Market Access department of the EU Trade Commission in Brussels to discuss the methodologies used (questionnaires for businesspeople surveys, reporting barriers, resolving barriers) and to lay the basis for future cooperation.
Following these consultations the Secretariat, together with the members of the Task Force, formulated the questionnaire (which you can download from here) following EU practices and also utilizing the relevant experience that some of our countries already have. In the meantime, the Secretariat has started compiling specific trade-barrier information from the Market Access site, so that we can start developing a data base for BSEC countries. Please click here to download the updated list. While dealing with the various kinds of barriers-to-trade and with cross-border trade facilitation issues, the Secretariat also aims at promoting within BSEC the idea of establishing a Free Trade Area and facilitating the process thereof. This issue is a very operational tool for developing cooperation with the EU Trade Directorate, the OECD, World Bank, EBRD etc. We are providing below links to other sites on the trade barriers issue because they have information and online reporting system that may be of interest to our users. The Market Access Database is an important operational tool of the European Union's Market Access Strategy, supporting a continuous three-way exchange of information between the EU institutions, Member States and European business. The Market Access Strategy is a key pillar of the EU's Trade Policy which aims to reduce the obstacles faced by European exporters of goods and services. The Market Access Database is a free, interactive, easy to use service providing: The Export Helpdesk is an online service, provided by the European Commission, to facilitate market access for developing countries to the European Union. The Trade Compliance Center, the TCC, in the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, is the U.S. Government's focal point for monitoring foreign compliance with trade agreements to see that U.S. firms and workers get the maximum benefits from these agreements.
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