Barriers to Trade

Reinsurance markets enable the efficient and effective diversification of risk globally and thereby promote continued growth and recovery of global and national economies. For reinsurance markets to function well, they need to be able to pool different forms of catastrophic and non-catastrophic risk.  Barriers to trade in reinsurance therefore undermine the efficiency of reinsurance markets by reducing competition, leading to less choice for consumers and result in higher reinsurance costs and less capacity over the long time horizon. The letter and list of trades barriers and market access issues sent to stakeholders are available at the following links:

 

Current (April 2024) 

 

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

 

Previous versions of the Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues table

April 2023

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

April 2022

Executive Summary

 List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

May 2021

Letter to Stakeholders

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

November 2020

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

May 2020

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

August 2019

Letter to Stakeholders

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues

 

March 2019

Letter to Stakeholders

List of Trade Barriers and Market Access Issues