Regional integration and trade preferences
We have undertaken a number of projects analysing the implications for developing countries of regional integration and of changes to trade preference arrangements. These have been both of a general nature and specific to various commodities, including sugar, rice, bananas, fruit and vegetables and. As well as providing analytical services, OPM has made recommendations to our clients on how to advance clients’ interests in regional and international negotiations.
Project Examples
Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalisation on Developing Countries' Exports
Client: DFID
Funder: DFID
Analysis of the Impact of Changes in the EU's Rice Regime on the Rice Sector of ACP Countries
Client: ACP and EC
Funder: EC
Development of COMESA Competition Law
Client: COMESA
Funder: COMESA
Analysis of the Impact of Preference Erosion in Sugar
Client: DFID
Funder: DFID
Study on safeguarding the benefits of the Sugar Protocol to ACP countries
Client: European Commission
Funder: CTA
EU's Fruit and Vegetables Regimes: Impact on Developing Countries
Client: DFID
Funder: DFID
Study of the Impact of Preference Erosion in Bananas on Caribbean Countries
Client: DFID
Funder: DFID