Estimating the Effects of Selected Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade on U.S.-EU Agricultural Trade. Report Summary.

摘要

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) is a trade and investment agreement under negotiation by the United States and the European Union (EU). Along with tariff reduction, the removal of non-tariff measures (NTM) has emerged as a key focus of negotiations. For agriculture, the most frequently cited policy barriers to trade are sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures intended to address food safety and animal or plant health issues and technical barriers to trade (TBT) that set out requirements for a product, such as technical standards and labeling. Given that addressing NTMs is a key goal of trade negotiations, there is growing interest in quantifying the extent of protection embodied in these measures and the effects of their removal on trade.