Inquit Database of SPS notifications

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I’ve built a new database of WTO notifications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, covering all measures notified to WTO from September 1999 to April 2007 May 2007. [UPDATE] The database contains some 6,170 6265 records [UPDATE] of which about 150 corrections. On average, governments are notifying about 75 new measures every month. The rapid growth of global trade in processed food, pharmaceuticals and ‘nutraceuticals’—not to mention fears of epidemic zoonoses— is adding daily to the heap of barriers

The Developed countries have the biggest ‘store’ of measures, but as this chart on the monthly notification data over the past 6.5 years shows, Developing countries have become the most frequent source of new SPS barriers. Incidentally, the big developing country ‘spike’ in April 2002, when China notifed 140 barriers in one month.

I recently presented some detailed frequency analysis of SPS barriers in the APEC region to the annual Conference of APEC Centers in Melbourne. You can find the slides and the paper on the APEC Center site.

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