Barbara Fliess spoke on the role of host-country trade barriers at a conference on Removing Barriers to SME Access to International Markets organized jointly by APEC and OECD in Athens on 6-8 November. Subsequently she was quoted in an article of La Tribune covering this event. In late October, she participated in the first working session in Washington, D.C. of a  multi-agency support team which is providing substantive support to the work of a recently established group of eminent persons on non-tariff barrier. This group has been asked by the Secretary General of UNCTAD to make recommendations on such issues as NTB classification, data collection and quantification. She also presented a paper co-authored with other colleagues at the 2nd International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility organized by the Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany. The theme of the conference was globalization and corporate responsibility.

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“Overview of Non-tariff Barriers: Findings from Existing Business Surveys.” OECD 7 Mar. 2003.

“Analysis of Non-tariff Measures: The Case of Labeling: Overview and Analysis of WTO Data.” OECD 14 Nov. 2003.

Fliess, B, and Peter Walkenhorst. “Non-tariff Measures Affecting EU Exports: Evidence from a Complaints-inventory.” OCED 5 Dec. 2003.

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