Transparency has a key role in the avoidance of unnecessary trade restrictions. This paper is not focused on how governments can apply a number of non-tariff trade policy measures such as technical standards, trade remedies, and quotas, which all are considered trade barriers. Rather, in this paper we provide an analysis of non-transparent practices, which are also called hidden trade barriers (Helble, Shepherd, & Wilson, 2009). These hidden trade barriers take the form of gifts, irregular payments for exports and imports, and bribes.