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Integration and Trade Sector (INT) activities on SPS related issues

Integration and Trade Sector (INT) activities on SPS related issues. Juliana Salles Almeida jalmeida@iadb.org. I. Technical assistance and capacity building for public and private sector. i) IDB-WTO Annual Training Program (supply-driven courses )

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Integration and Trade Sector (INT) activities on SPS related issues

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  1. Integration and Trade Sector (INT) activities on SPS related issues Juliana Salles Almeida jalmeida@iadb.org

  2. I. Technical assistance and capacity building for public and private sector i) IDB-WTO Annual Training Program (supply-driven courses) - Agriculture course (with an SPS Module), Buenos Aires/Argentina, 26-28 April 2010, - SPS Course, Lima/Peru, November 2010. ii) Agriculture Trade, SPS technical courses (demand-driven courses) - Conociendo los Requerimientos sanitarios y fitosanitarios de los Principales Mercados Importadores”, Ciudad de Guatemala, 12-13 April 2010. - Ronda de diseminación de las Guías Para Exportar a la Unión Europea, Central America, 14-22 April 2010. - Fortaleciendo la capacidad agroexportadora de las PYMES Ecuatorianas, Quito/Guaquill, Ecuador, October 2010.

  3. II. Research • The Treatment of Agriculture in the RTAs in the Americas, IDB, Oct 2009 • “The Treatment of Agriculture in Trade Agreements around the World: lessons learned and best practices”, OECD/ IDB (forthcoming) • iii)“SPS Import Requirements to Access the EU Market”, IDB, April 2010 • iv)  “SPS Import Requirements to Access the Asian Market” IDB, August 2010 III. Loan/Grants with SPS component

  4. IV. Database: INTrade

  5. Notifications on SPS barriers Regional export refusals Private standards SPS requirements SPS in the RTA

  6. Present WTO Plus Absent

  7. Notifications on Specific Trade Concerns

  8. Main complainants from LAC Main respondents from LAC Main areas of the LAC complains Subject of the LAC complains Lack of compliance with harmonization principle Animal health Inadequate/unjustified delays in the procedure of control, inspection, approval

  9. Regional Export Refusals

  10. Problems that motivated the import refusals by the FDA Presence of dangerous and prohibited substance Labeling

  11. Thank you! INTrade Available at http://www.iadb.org/int

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