Contentious issues in IEPA negotiations: implications and questions in the agricultural sector
In some interim economic partnership agreements (IEPAs) a number of contentious issues have emerged, which in some countries will have profound and immediate implications for national agricultural development policies. The aim of this briefing is to set out the concerns around these issues with a view to assisting ACP governments in assessing whether they are relevant intheir national situations.
The issues reviewed in this Agritrade special report are:
- provisions prohibiting or limiting the use of import and export licences and other market-regulation measures;
- provisions restricting the use of export taxes as a policy tool to stimulate movement up the agricultural value chain;
- the tariff-standstill commitments made in the evolving context of high global food prices;
- the provisions dealing with infant-industry protection and their consistency with existing national and regional arrangements for infant-industry protection;
- the provisions dealing with agricultural safeguards and food-security issues.
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