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Bureaucratic Barriers

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noun

• needlessly time-consuming procedure

36%12 Removing bureaucratic barriers to entry
noun

• the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)

28%13 The conversion of non-tariff barriers into tariff barriers
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