World Bank - UNIDO Report on Pakistan's agro-based exports and Sanitary and Phytosanitary compliance

 

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Imported agricultural and food products have to conform to Sanitary and Phytosanitary  (SPS) measures which are applied to protect human or animal life from food-borne and plant-carrying diseases.

The WTO Agreement on the application of SPS measures specifies that countries should base their technical regulations and sanitary and phytosanitary measures on international standards. If they conform to the standards laid down, then by implication the international standards will not form barriers to trade. Recent food scandals and outbreaks of foodborne diseases have created added pressure for regulators to tighten rules and their enforcement.

This report (view or download report, without cover 700kb or with cover 2mb) is the result of a study undertaken by the World Bank and UNIDO in the framework of their respective cooperation programmes in Pakistan. Both organizations are assisting the Government of Pakistan in the development of its trade capacity, and joined forces for a comprehensive analysis of SPS-related challenges across three key sectors with high export potential.

The World Bank was responsible for the overall study and the sectoral analysis of the horticulture and livestock sectors, while UNIDO was responsible for the analysis of the fisheries sector.

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