nontariff
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- adjective
- /nɒnˈtærɪf/
- Specialized
- More importantly, bargaining for international trade usually has significant political costs in terms of lost political patronage by protectionist groups, who benefit from higher tariffs and other nontariff barriers.
- nontariff barriers
Examples
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Many countries impose nontariff barriers that complicate international trade agreements.
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Several of the ECJ's decisions have been concerned with questions of grey goods, parallel imports, and exhaustion of intellectual property rights, to which reference has been made earlier in considering intellectual property rights as nontariff barriers.
Academic text (1994) -
The White House focused on Seoul for its trade barriers against meat imports, its restricted capital market, and its nontariff barriers.
Academic text (2000) -
GATT authorities could also acknowledge the need for more extensive use on nontariff issues of conditional reciprocity—meaning a country would enjoy additional privileges if it also assumed additional obligations.
Academic text (1994) -
Prior to the establishment of the WTO, Warren Moran correctly predicted that intellectual property rights, as a form of nontariff trade restriction, would become an important influence on trade flows and a growing distinction among rural products (1993).
Academic text (2011) -
Most economists, particularly the Western advisers and commentators, but also the better-informed economic policymakers of the PETs, have backed a quite liberal trade regime applicable to all authorized agents with few, if any, nontariff barriers and low, preferably uniform, tariffs.
Academic text (1994) -
The report analyzed how nontariff restrictions, like quotas and standards, impact market access.
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To promote free trade, the government is working to eliminate unnecessary nontariff barriers.
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Etymology
Nontariff comes from the parts non- meaning 'not' and tariff meaning 'a tax on imports or exports'. So a nontariff policy or rule does not use a tax but still changes how trade works between countries.