Our policy notes provide concise overviews of OECD research on a range of key contemporary trade policy issues.

Overview

Our brochure, Policy Notes (February, 2018), provides an overview of the policy research conducted on trade issues at the OECD, and gives you links to all our work on trade that has been published in the past five years.

Read our paper Trade - OLD (May 2017) to learn more about the contemporary debates around trade, and how an integrated approach across domestic, trade and international policies can make the whole system work better for more people. We also have a one-page policy note (May 2017) on this report that you may be interested in, alongside a concise briefing on Global Trade, Policies, and Populism.

 

Export Credits

• Export Credits Work at the OECD (June 2018)
• Policy Notes (June 2018)

 

Digital trade

• Policy Notes (OECD, 2018)
• Policy Notes (OECD, 2018)
• Policy Notes (OECD, 2018)
• Policy Notes (OECD, 2018)
• Trade in the digital era (OECD, 2018)

 

Global Value Chains

• Benefitting from Participation in Global Value Chains (December 2016)
• Policy Notes (November 2014)
• Policy Notes (March 2015)
• Policy Notes (December 2016)
• The Participation of Developing Countries in Global Value Chains: Implications for Trade and Trade Policy (April 2015)
• Policy Notes (November 2015)
• Trade in Value-Added (March 2014)
• Trade in Value-Added Country Notes (2015)

 

Services Trade

• OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (March 2018)
• Policy Notes (August 2016)
• Services Trade Restrictiveness Country Notes (December 2017)

 

Trade Facilitation

• Policy Notes (May 2018)
• Policy Notes (May 2018)
• OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators: An overview of available tools (May 2018)
• Policy Notes (May 2018)

 

Other

• Policy Notes (February 2015)
• Policy Notes (February 2016)
• Exports of mineral commodities: Contributing to economy-wide growth? (September 2016) | Chinese
• Policy Notes (September 2015)
• Making Trade Work for All (May 2017)
• Policy Notes (October 2018)
• METRO - OECD's New Trade Model (August 2016)
• Policy Notes (September 2016)