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Restrictions and export duties: A pending issue

by Nelson Illescas and

Nicolás Jorge

The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective | 2021 | Pages: 13

Publisher(s): Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)international food policy research institute (ifpri)

DOI : https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134827

Open Access | CC BY-SA-3.0-IGO

Citation

Illescas, Nelson; and Jorge, Nicolás. 2021. Restrictions and export duties: A pending issue. In The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective, eds. Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos, and Martín Piñeiro. Topics discussed at the WTO agricultural committee going into the MC12, Pp. 43-55. San Jose, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134827

Export barriers (or controls) can take a variety of forms -such as prohibitions, taxes, quotas or licenses, among others- and have been applied to industrial and agricultural products, both by developed and developing countries, while pursuing economic and non-economic goals. When both the Havana Charter - legal instrument intended to establish the International Trade Organization37- and the General Agreement on Customs Tariffs and Trade - GATT - were negotiated, measures of this type were not a major issue of concern.

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