Review of India’s LDC scheme highlights the importance of product coverage, SPS requirements and rules of origin The duty-free preferential import scheme announced by India in April 2008 became fully operational in October 2012. The scheme offers duty-free acc... 20/07/2014
Use of agricultural trade policy tools remains contentious in EPA negotiations and intra-regional trade In the SADC EPA context, outstanding issues have been reduced to two: agricultural safeguards and export taxes, both of which potentially impact on... 20/07/2014
ACP countries must position themselves with regard to the emerging Pacific and Atlantic FTAs A review by the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) of what it calls “mega-regional” FTAs argues that ACP states will have... 28/06/2014
EU to emerge as a major driver of global sugar markets According to the website Agrimoney.com, sugar market analysts at the UK-based broker Marex Spectron have suggested that the EU “is to become one of... 14/06/2014
Debate intensifies on extension of COOL requirements to other products The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a review of the EU’s country-of-origin labelling (COOL) policy. It notes that when the EU’s r... 08/06/2014
ACP agro-food exports: The growing importance of NTMs & SPS dispute settlement mechanisms IntroductionAn E-book published by OECD in January 2013 noted that as classical tariff barriers to trade have been dismantled, so non-tariff measur... 25/05/2014
The ACP and increased private sector demands for sustainability certification IntroductionIn the two decades before the financial crisis, food consumption patterns in the EU underwent significant change, with an increased foc... 25/05/2014
ACP agricultural exports and proposed changes to the EU Regulation on food and feed controls BackgroundIn May 2013, the EC put forward “proposals to change the current legislation governing all official controls in the food and agriculture... 11/05/2014
EC trade barriers report provides insights into agro-food sector priorities in future trade relations The European Commission (EC) has published its ‘Trade and investment barriers report 2014’, which looks at the key barriers faced in trade and inve... 22/04/2014
Lessons for the ACP from EU efforts to strengthen the functioning of sugar supply chains IntroductionAs part of the EU agreement of June 2013 on the abolition of EU sugar production quotas, the European Commission (EC) announced that, f... 16/04/2014