WTO and Non-Tariff Measures: A Concise Guide

Author: Ke Bingsheng et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is based on the research report of the project. It focuses on the relevant rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and closely connects with the actual trade of agricultural products. It aims to provide a fundamental and systematic framework on non-tariff measures of agricultural products in an accurate, concise, and popular language. This book is expected to serve as a convenient tool for decision-makers, managers, operators, and producers in China's agricultural trade to understand and grasp the basic issues of non-tariff barriers in agricultural trade. For this purpose, the book adopts a question-and-answer format for easier readability. The structure of the book is as follows:
Part 1 outlines the non-tariff measures of agricultural products under the WTO;
Part 2 and Part 3 focus on the two non-tariff measures agreements most closely related to agricultural products in the WTO agreements: the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures;
Part 4 introduces the three major international groups closely related to the above two agreements;
Part 5;
Part 6.