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Agriculture in Regional Trade Agreements

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In an effort to promote long-term progress with respect to SPS issues, which of the following actions can be performed by joint committees established under RTAs?

Select all answers that apply.

Delegate the coordination of technical cooperation programmes to others

Consult with relevant international organizations on SPS measures pending before domestic authorities

Share information

Resolve contentious issues bilaterally

Lower tariffs for all members

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Please match the correct definition to the corresponding type of Regional Trade Area.

Reduction or elimination of barriers to trade among members; each party maintains its own external tariffs.

Customs Unions with addition of free movement of factors of production (labour, capital)

Common Market with addition of harmonization of certain economic policies, particularly macroeconomic and regulatory

Reduction or elimination of barriers to trade among members; members maintain common external tariffs

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SPS measures are never excluded from the purview of the adjudicative tribunals or other RTA dispute settlement mechanisms.

RTAs often apply the same rules to SPS and TBT measures relevant to agricultural goods, by using the generic concept of “agricultural and food standards”.

Select the correct statement:

RTAs contain provisions that are WTO-extra, but not WTO-plus.

RTAs contain provisions that are WTO-plus, but not WTO-extra.

The number and the complexity of RTAs in coverage and content has increased during the last two decades.

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Which of the following options can be considered as mega-RTAs?

Select all the answers that apply.

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

European Union

EFTA-Indonesia FTA

African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

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The issue of “preference erosion” which raises concerns, in regard to the RTAs, refers to:

The shift of imports from low-cost countries, which are non-participants in the RTA, to higher-cost RTA parties due to the lowering of tariffs among RTA parties

The lowering of tariffs among RTA parties results in non-participating developing countries losing the competitive advantage they had through preferential market access schemes

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The displacement of a RTA party’s higher-cost production with lower-cost imports from another party

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Regional trade agreements are trade agreements of a mutually preferential nature.

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