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Reviewing the SPS Agreement

其他書名	A Developing Country Perspective
出版	Centre for Development Research, 2002
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Dm_uAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Sanitary and phytosanitary measures are increasingly important in the international trade of agricultural products. They are implemented to ensure that food is safe for consumers, and to prevent the spread of pests or diseases among animals and plants. But they may also be used as protectionist devices to keep foreign competitors out. The SPS Agreement of the WTO has been created in order to distinguish between these two functions of SPS measures and to rule the latter out. This paper evaluates the Agreement from the viewpoint of developing countries. It is concluded that although developing countries have a high demand for an effective agreement of this sort, in practice they face a great number of difficulties when using the Agreement. A few larger middle-income