How Can Restrictive Administrative and Technical Regulations Create Barriers to Trade

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How can restrictive administrative and technical regulations create barriers to trade?

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Definitions:

Ordinal

Pertaining to a scale or measurement where the order of values is significant, but the intervals between values are not necessarily consistent or known.

Interval

A range of numbers between two set points where any number within that range is included.

Randomized Block Experiment

A randomized block experiment is a type of statistical experiment in which subjects are divided into blocks based on characteristics that might affect the response, and then within each block, subjects are randomly assigned to treatments.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A statistical test that doesn't rely on parameter assumptions to compare two separate samples, aiming to ascertain if they originate from identical distributions.