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Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade applies to:
1. Only food products
2. Phytosanitary measures
3. Sanitary measures
4. All commodities, not just food

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Correct Answer - Option 4 : All commodities, not just food

Technical Barriers to Trade:

  • All products, including industrial and agricultural products, shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement.
  • The provisions of this Agreement do not apply to sanitary and phytosanitary measures as defined in Annex A of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. hence options 2,3 eliminated.

 

  • Technical trade barriers aim to ensure that technical regulations, standards, and conformity assessment procedures are non-discriminatory and do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade.
  • The TBT Agreement strongly encourages members to base their measures on international standards as a means to facilitate trade.

  • The TBT Agreement was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, which was concluded in April of 1994.
  • All WTO (World Trade Organization) members are Parties to the TBT Agreement, which entered into force on January 1, 1995, and which has no expiration date.
  • Technical barriers to trade aim to ensure that technical regulations, standards, and conformity assessment procedures are non-discriminatory and do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade.
  • The TBT Agreement strongly encourages members to base their measures on international standards as a means to facilitate trade.

 

SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures) :

  • The agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures sets out the basic rules for food safety and animal and plant health standards.
  • sanitary and phytosanitary measures can take many forms, such as requiring products to come from a disease-free area, an inspection of products, specific treatment or processing of products, setting of allowable maximum levels of pesticide residues, or permitted use of only certain additives in food.
  • It applies to domestically produced food or local animal and plant diseases as well as to products coming from other countries.

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