Posts tagged…Quarantine
NZ Apples, at last! But…
Mon, Apr 12 2010"THE World Trade Organisation has overturned Australia's 90-year-long ban on importing New Zealand apples, according to NZ media reports, which are branding the decision 'a win against Australia" Extract from Australia's ban on New Zealand apples overturned by World Trade Organisation - report | The Daily Telegraph
The Apples Case should never have arisen because we should have welcomed NZ…
Read more…Peru jumps the China FTA queue
Wed, Apr 29 2009This news makes the delay in agreement between Australia and China on an FTA look even more peculiar.
" China and Peru on Tuesday signed a free trade agreement, state media here said, as Beijing continues to seek new markets and reserves of raw materials to fuel its economy… China has become mineral-rich Peru's second largest trading partner after the United States. Peru is a major producer of…
Interview in the Boao Asia Forum
Tue, Apr 28 2009
The top Chinese business daily, 21st Century Business Herald, published several special editions at the recent Boao Asia Forum. Here's an interview with me on the Australia-China FTA, Australia's investment policies, quarantine barriers and the future of the Renminbi as a 'reserve' currency.
Google Translate takes its best shot here.
Banana ban breached not broken
Tue, Mar 10 2009Only eight years after the 'import risk assessment' process started, and three years after cyclone Larry's decimation of the local crop combined with the import ban pushed average prices up by almost 90%, Australians have at last the—distant but tantalizing—prospect of access to those wicked Philippines bananas.
Not, mind you, without a 'belts and braces' set of controls that you would expect…
SPS database
Wed, Aug 27 2008It's out of date. It contains records only up to May 2007 because…well, there weren't many users and the WTO was talking about mining it's own data to create something similar. As far as I know they haven't done that yet. So if you find this database of quarantine barriers is useful, please post a comment or email me to let me know.
Inquit Database of SPS notifications
Tue, May 29 2007here to open the IQ SPS database in a new window”
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…
Access to the Inquit Standards Database
Mon, Feb 19 2007The Inquit database of SPS and TBT standards is still available has been retired and replaced with new database of SPS measures (see this story). The data on SPS measures and TBT measures had a number of errors due, mostly, to the inconsistent way that Members filled out their notifications in the first few years of the WTO system. The new datbase is much more accurate, and links directly to the…
International impact on food regulations
Sat, Feb 10 2007
Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission engaged Inquit to survey the costs that obligations under international agreements and the requirements of trading partners impose on food producers, processors and wholesalers in the state of Victoria. More than two-thirds of Victorian food production is for the export market.
We found that the regulations that impose costs are Australian…