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Regulatory barriers in international horticultural markets
Economic Research Service, USDA, 2004During the Uruguay round of negotiations in 1995 WTO members agreed to multilateral rules governing the use of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (the SPS Agreement). These aimed to ensure that measures adopted by countries ostensibly to protect plant or human health were not in fact primarily in force to shield domestic producers from competition.DocumentShifting paradigms in international animal health standards: the need for comprehensive standards to enable commodity-based trade
Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2004According to international standards on animal health, many developing countries have been trying to eradicate important livestock diseases and thereby improve access to global markets for animals and animal products. But is the eradication of these diseases really feasible in countries with scarce resources?DocumentThe EC traceability and equivalence rules in light of the SPS Agreement: a review of the main legal issues
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003This study sets forth the major legal issues in connection with the WTO legality of the European Union’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) legislation as well as the traceability rules to come into force on 1 January 2005.DocumentStudy of the consequences of the application of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures on ACP countries
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003This study examines the European Union’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation in order to identify what measures related to consumer health and safety in the area of foodstuffs act as barriers to imports from ACP countries.DocumentTrade and environmental standards
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999This briefing (8th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) explores the effects that global trade has on the environment and how environmental regulations can be made compatible with trade agreements.Claims include:liberal economists are optimistic about the complementarity between trade and environmental goals: the environment is a factor of production that affects a couDocumentLowering barriers to agricultural exports through technical assistance
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) regulations imposed by the developed world, significantly reduce the export opportunities of developing countries.DocumentThe electronic journal of governance and innovation
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003This issue of eAfrica examines the critical issues and the demands for trade-offs that Africa can expect form the defenders of unfair trade at the fifth WTO Ministerial in Cancun. It outlines two aggressive tactics that Africa could use to win a better deal and how Africa needs to make fundamental changes if it is to exploit even the modest trade access it has now.DocumentPost-Doha African challenges in the Sanitary and Phytosanitary and Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement
Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002Africa's capacity to negotiate at the international level within organisations like the WTO has been greatly improved since Uruguay.DocumentWTO and product-related environmental standards
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003This article examines, in the Indian context, the issues of the linkage between exports from developing countries and the regulatory standards set by developed-country importers for food safety, quality and environmental norms.DocumentDirty exports and environmental regulation: do standards matter to trade?
World Bank, 2002This paper addresses part of the background context to the Doha discussions on deciding whether or how to link trade agreements to the environment.Pages