Study period | Regional coverage | NTM measure | Methodology | Findings | Reference |
1970-2005 | Developing, developed, OECD | Imported-related NTMs | Gravity model | Developing countries are negatively affected much by NTMs than developed countries | |
1991-2002 | Developing | SPS | Case study | Some developing countries, such as India, have to close down their plants due to the more stringent standards whilst they had to look for other alternative markets | |
1996-2010 | Developing, developed | SPS | The gravity model | SPS measures constitute barriers to agricultural and food trade consistently to all exporters | |
1996-2013 | Developing | SPS, TBT | VARMA(X) and intervention models | NTMs reduce agri-food trade volume in Africa | |
1997-2015 | Developing, developed | Imported-related NTMs | The gravity model | NTMs have become an even more dominant source of trade protection | |
1998-2006 | Developing, developed | TBT | The modified two-stage gravity model | TBT tends to result in the decline of China’s imports, which are closely linked to the exporting country’s economic development level | |
2001 | Developing, developed | SPS, TBT | The gravity model | Environmental-related NTMs used for protectionist causes | |
2001-2003 | Developing, developed | Imported-related NTBs | The general equilibrium model | The impact of NTBs on trade flows similar to tariffs | |
2001-2006 | Developed | Imported-related NTMs | The gravity model and a partial equilibrium model | Negative impacts of NTMs on imports of crustaceans | |
2001-2014 | China and its trading partners | Imported-related NTMs | The gravity model | Non-technical NTMs are particularly stringent for final goods | |
2002-2015 | China, Japan, and Korea | SPS, TBT | The inventory approach | From a coverage ratio perspective, Chinese TBT measures reduce Japan and Korea’s manufacturing and total exports as a whole | |
2004 | European countries, developing countries and OECD | SPS, TBT | The gravity model and the inventory approach | NTMs significantly reduce developing countries’ exports to OECD countries, and European imports are more negatively influenced by SPS and TBTs than imports of other OECD countries | |
2010-2012 | Developing, developed | SPS, TBT | Market analysis | NTMs used for protectionist causes | |
2014 | Malaysia and its trading partners | Imported-related NTMs | Questionnaire and survey | NTMs, especially technical NTMs, are perceived to be stringent and pose challenges to small and medium firms, resource based firms and firms with less exposure to international markets | |
2017 | 22 papers (16 published in peer-reviewed journals, six from grey literature), 271 observations (point estimates of trade effects of NTMs), and 256 estimated t-statistics | Imported-related NTMs | A meta-analytical approach | NTMs have the trade-impeding effects | |