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Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures; World Trade Organization; trade-restrictive measures
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Making Wto Sps Dispute Settlement Work: Challenges And Practical Solutions, Eric Gillman
Making Wto Sps Dispute Settlement Work: Challenges And Practical Solutions, Eric Gillman
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) represents an effort by the Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to balance competing interests in liberalizing trade, on one hand, and protecting human, animal, and plant life from risks posed by the free flow of goods on the other. SPS disputes center around a core question: Does the imported product at issue present a sufficiently serious threat to national health to warrant the imposition of trade-restrictive measures? Over twelve years and six disputes, panels and the Appellate Body (AB) have addressed this question by evaluating respondents' risk assessments. The …