Non-Tariff Measures and the Structure of Trade Flows

Understanding the process of quantitative influence of foreign trade policy measures (tariff and non-tariff) on the development of Russian industry is the basis of decision-making process on using of different measures of industrial policy and the study of their impact on the import/export and product diversity is an important part of the development of a balanced industrial and trade policy. The main purpose of this work is to test the hypothesis about the negative impact of tariff and non-tariff measures for protection domestic market on import/export on HS-6(8) data, fnd testing the hypotheses about the different influence of trade policy measures (tariff and non-tariff) for protection the domestic market on product diversity of final and intermediate goods, evaluation of ad valorem equivalents of non-tariff measures on certain commodity groups at the level of HS – 6(8), quantify the impact of tariff and non-tariff barriers on the structure of trade flows and, in particular, on the export structure.