The July 2004 WTO Framework Agreement foresees a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), to protect against depressed import prices and import surges for agricultural products, that is available to all developing countries. The SSM would in principle be applicable to all products. However, limits on the number of products for which a country can simultaneously apply additional duty under the SSM could be applied to prevent abuse

This technical note reviews major developments in the international food aid system and different positions on the effectiveness and impact of food aid. It also attempts to clarify the terminology, definitions and concepts used in discussions on food aid, with a view to improving the process of analysis and to help focus the debate under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Framework Agreement on Agriculture adopted on 1 August 2004, which...

Access for developing country exports to developed country markets on preferential terms has been a long standing component of multilateral trading arrangements. The main purpose of preferences is to promote increases in the volume and value of exports from developing countries, thereby contributing to their growth and development the logic being that through greater volumes of sales, on a more stable basis and at higher prices than would otherwise be...

Ce dossier décrit les tendances dans le commerce agroalimentaire à l'échelle de la planète et par groupe de pays classés selon le revenu, en mettant l'accent sur les échanges commerciaux des pays à faible revenu.

Ce dossier, basé sur une publication conjointe FAO-OMC, souligne l’importance d’appliquer des normes internationales en matière de sécurité sanitaire des aliments, et la nécessité pour les pays d’investir dans le renforcement de leurs capacités à cet égard. Cela permettrait aux échanges commerciaux de se poursuivre sans heurt et sans distorsion.

Ce dossier donne un aperçu de l'évolution des droits consolidés et des droits appliqués en mettant l'accent sur la progressivité des droits