Quantifying Non-Tariff Measures for TTIP. Paper No. 12 in the CEPS-CTR project ‘TTIP in the Balance’ and CEPS Special Report No. 116/July 2015

This paper provides an overview of methods employed to quantify non-tariff measures (NTMs) and then analyses their differences and looks at what these mean for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. The authors find several similarities in the approaches taken. Because all studies conclude that NTMs matter, they argue that policy-makers are right to focus on ‘regulatory cooperation’ in TTIP. Given the significant differences in NTMs across sectors, policy-makers are urged to dive deep into sector-specific elements of NTMs and focus on those sectors where the largest potential gains can be made (i.e. where NTMs are highest, such as in agriculture, automobiles, steel, textiles and insurance services). An area identified for further research is the fact that unlike trade taxes (i.e. tariffs), regulatory barriers to trade are not generally targeted as the primary policy objective, but rather stem from other strategic policy concerns such as consumer safety and/or social and environmental protection. This element should be further investigated.

Studies in televised instruction, report

Virginia Shipman is a joint author of no. 1, Yolanda and R.H. Willis of no. 6.

Educational television : report (to accompany H.R. 132)

"August 21, 1961."

For better introductions... personal information about your agriculture specialists and administrators.

"This information was gathered at the request of farm advisers to help them make better introductions of visiting extension specialists and administrators from the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. This material can also be used in preparation of county news stories and radio programs."

Electricity on the farm and in the home, a textbook for vocational agricultural classes.

"Instructor's supplement to vocational agriculture textbook on rural electrification" (23 p.) inserted at end.

Publication - Agriculture Extension Service, University of Tennessee.

No. 462 never issued.

Report of the agriculture of Massachusetts,

Mode of access: Internet.

A survey of research in forest land ownership; report of a special committee on research in forest economics.

Mode of access: Internet.

Survey of rural electrification in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Project number S-F4-U28. Federal Emergency relief administration of Massachusetts ...

Mimeographed.

Television and social behavior; reports and papers.

Includes bibliographies

Dairy-potato farms in Northern Michigan /

"A. Ec 919"

Estimating 1980 ground-water pumpage for irrigation on the high plains in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming /

Bibliography: p. 35-36.

Determination of antibiotic an pesticide residues in dairy products; [course manual]

Includes bibliographies.

Rural sociological research in the United States. A social science research monograph.

Mimeographed.

The study of soils in relation to Wisconsin conditions a supplementary text-book for pupils and teachers /

"Prepared Especially for Use with Text-Books in Agriculture, General Science and Geography"