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Agriculture in Regional Trade Agreements

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SADC parties recognize the equivalence of each other’s SPS measures, with bilateral or regional equivalence agreements or equivalent risk assessment guidelines based on guidelines developed by the WTO SPS Committee, international standard-setting bodies or international institutions where appropriate.

True

False

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“Reduction or elimination of barriers to trade among Members; Members maintain common external tariffs”. These provisions refer to which of the following?

Select all the answers that apply.

Economic Union

Common market

Customs Union

Free trade area

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Which of the following options can be considered as “deep” provisions addressing a range of hidden barriers of a RTA? Select all the answers that apply.

Competition policy

100%

Intellectual property

Welfare programmes

Education

Which of the following actions can be performed by parties of an RTA to reduce or eliminate tariffs?

Select all answers that apply.

Parties of an RTA can decide to reduce a tariff at 20% every year until the tariff is eliminated or reaches the agreed reduced amount

Parties of an RTA can decide to reduce or eliminate a tariff at their chosen percentage, after some time has passed

Parties of an RTA can decide to reduce or eliminate a tariff immediately once the RTA enters into force

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Export duties are strictly prohibited by the WTO rules.

True

False

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No exception to the most-favoured nation principle is allowed under WTO rules

Please match the correct definition to the corresponding type of cumulation.

It means that all stages of transformation of a product within a FTA can take place within the cumulation zone as a whole, and not necessarily in one country

It occurs between two countries where a free trade agreement contains a provision allowing them to cumulate origin

It occurs between the preference-granting country and a list of other designated countries to which the same rules of origin apply

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According to OECD data, in 2022, less than half of world trade took place within RTAs. In this regard, the share of agri-food trade among RTA parties in proportion to global agri-food trade diminished.

True

False

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Sometimes, exporters can fail to take advantage of RTA preferences due to which of the following options?

Please select only one.

Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) measures

Need to comply with complicated Rules of Origin (ROO) requirements

All of the above