Trade Regulations
Ireland: Trade Regulations
Ireland: Trade Regulations Trade policy: Overview The Irish economy relies heavily on foreign trade, and the total value of Irish exports increased by 4% annually over 2000-09. The value of exports grew by 6.7%, to EUR161bn, in 2010, the highest figure ever recorded. At least 85% of total exports are from foreign-owned companies. Ireland’s main [...]
Ecuador: Trade Regulations 5 Jan 2012
Ecuador: Trade Regulations Trade policy: Overview Ecuador traditionally ran a trade surplus, with the value of exports exceeding the value of imports, funded by the price of crude oil, its principal export. However, growth in the value of imports has led to deficits since 2009, which is threatening macroeconomic stability, given Ecuador’s inability to print [...]
Czech Republic: Trade Regulations 5 Jan 2012
Czech Republic: Trade Regulations Trade policy: Overview The Czech Republic maintains no special customs-free or export-processing zones and-notwithstanding lower production costs, investment incentives and a favourable tax regime-the country has no particular attributes to make it an attractive export base apart from its central geographical location in continental Europe. Nevertheless, as befits a low-cost producer, [...]
Canada: Trade Regulations
Canada: Trade Regulations Trade policy: Overview The Canadian economy is highly dependent on trade. The International Trade Division of Statistics Canada reports that the value of Canada’s merchandise exports rose by 9.6% in 2010, from the previous year, reaching C$404.8bn. Nonetheless, the 2010 figure was 17.2% lower than the most recent export peak of C$488.8bn [...]
South Korea: Trade Regulations
South Korea: Trade Regulations With its economy weighted towards exports and dependent on imported raw materials and capital goods, South Korea is one of the world’s largest trading nations. The External Trade Act (1986) governs export and import activities in the country. An amendment implemented in 1997 removed eligibility requirements for traders and replaced the [...]
Israel: Trade Regulations
Israel: Trade Regulations Israel is poor in natural resources; consequently, it depends on the import of raw materials and other goods and services, which it finances largely through export revenues. Foreign trade is the lifeblood of the economy, and there has been a steady liberalisation of its trade regime by successive governments. In the early [...]
Egypt: Trade Regulations
Egypt: Trade Regulations The Ministry of Trade and Industry estimated the total value of exports in 2010 at US$25.3bn, up from US$23.1bn in 2009. The total value of imports was estimated at US$46.5bn, up from US$44.9bn in 2009. Egypt’s major trade partners (in order of share of export value) for July 2010 to March 2011 [...]
Singapore: Trade Regulations
Singapore: Trade Regulations – Singapore has traditionally been a transshipment point for much of South-east Asia, and it is the world’s second-busiest port (after Hong Kong) in terms of tonnage of ships handled. Singapore has virtually no natural resources, so it depends heavily on external trade. Indeed, it has the world’s highest trade-to-GDP ratio. Singapore [...]
New Zealand: Trade Regulations
New Zealand: Trade Regulations – New Zealand’s economy is highly dependent on foreign trade. The value of imported goods rose to NZ$42.4bn in 2010, up from 40.2bn in 2009, according to Statistics New Zealand. The main sources of imports in 2009 were Australia, China, the United States and Japan—in order of their 2010 import value. [...]
El Salvador: Trade Regulations
El Salvador: Trade Regulations – Trade activity with the United States and neighbouring Central American countries, has become an increasingly important part of El Salvador’s economy since the implementation of the Dominican Republic–Central American Free-Trade Agreement in 2006. Since then, the value of total exports (in goods and services) has averaged 24.6% of the country’s [...]
