...restrictions which do not appear to be scientifically justifiable. The new World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) requires that each human, animal, and plant health import requirements be based on a scientific risk...

...disproportionately impacts agricultural goods. What, if any, plan does USTR have to address this problem? Answer 3: The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) contains the following language: "Members shall ensure that any sanitary or phytosanitary measure is...

...negotiations developed rules and principles to help minimize the adverse impact of SPS measures on trade.7 The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS agreement) and NAFTA'S chapter 7 on Agriculture and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures recognize that countries...

...Europe's ban on the use of six hormones to promote the growth of cattle was inconsistent with the EU's obligations under the WTO Agreement on the Application...Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) . In particular, the panel's report affirmed that the EC's ban was not based on science, nor on a risk...

...Europe's ban on the use of six hormones to promote the growth of cattle was inconsistent with the EU's obligations under the WTO Agreement on the Application...Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) . In particular, the panel's report affirmed that the EC's ban was not based on science, nor on a risk...

...implementation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With the formal recognition given to Codex in the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement), Codex has moved to the forefront of international science-based, standards-setting bodies associated...

...different national standards, and the compatibility of even non-discriminatory standards with (for example) the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)98 is itself a problematic issue.99 Within the EC such non-discriminatory barriers have been...

...by the food industry throughout the world. 27 ' 40 The recently implemented World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) 3 requires that countries signatory to the agreement base their laws concerned with protecting human,...

...and by the food industry throughout the world.27'40 The recently implemented World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)' requires that countries signatory to the agreement base their laws concerned with protecting human,...

...cattle to which hormones had been administered for growth promotion purposes contrary to the GATT, the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ('SPS Agreement') or the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade ('TBT Agreement') - relationship between those...