Glossary
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A
accession
accounting rate
ACP Group (ACP:African, Caribbean and Pacific countries)
ad valorem equivalent (AVE)
ad valorem tariff
African Group
Agenda 2000
Agenda 21
Aggregate measurement of support (AMS)
agricultural product
Amber Box
Andean Community
anti-dumping duties
APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum)
Appellate Body
Applied rates
Applied tariff / Applied rates
Article XII members
Article XX
ASEAN(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
ATC (Agreement on Textiles and Clothing)
automatic import licensing
automaticity
B
Balance of payments basis
Basel Convention
Berne Convention
binding, bound
BIT(bilateral investment treaties)
blue Box
border protection
bottom up
Boxes
Bracketed
BSE(Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
BTA(Border tax adjustment)
C
C.i.f
cabotage
Cairns Group
CAP(Common Agricultural Policy)
Caricom
carry forward
CBD
circumvention
CITES
Codex Alimentariusco
commercial presence
Committee on Agriculture
Committee on Agriculture in Special Session
compulsory licensing
concentric circles
Cotton -4
counterfeit
countervailing measures
CRTA
CTD
CTDSS
CTE
CTESS
CTG
Cumulation
Customs duty
customs union
D
DDA
de minimis
decoupled income support
deficiency payment
Digits, digit-level (tariffs)
distortion
Doha Round
Domestic support
DSB
DSU
dumping
E
EC
EEP
EFTA
electronic commerce
EMS
Enabling Clause
enquiry point
Environmental goods and services
Equivalence
EST
EST&P
EU
ex ante, ex post
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
exhaustion
Export competition
Export prohibitions and restrictions
Export subsidies (agriculture)
export-performance measure
F
F.o.b.
FDI
Food security
Formal/informal
free trade area
free-rider
G
G-10
G-20
G-33
G15
G7
G77
G8
GATS
GATT
general obligations
generic
geographical indications
government use
GPA
green Box
Green Room
GRULAC
GSP
H
Harmonized System
harmonizing formula
HLM
HoDs
horizontal
HS 6-digit
I
import licensing
inclusive
Independent entity
initial commitments
integration programme
intellectual property rights
internal support
International Office of Epizootics
IPRs
ITA
ITA II
ITC
ITCB
IUU fishing
J
Job document
L
LCA
LDCs
Lisbon Agreement
local-content measure
M
Madrid Agreement
mailbox
Market Access
Market distortion
Market price support (MPS)
MEA
MEAs
Members
MERCOSUR
metadata
MFA
MFN
MFN (most-favoured-nation) tariff
Minimum import price
Ministerial Conference
modality
modes of delivery
Montreal Protocol
multi-modal
multifunctionality
multilateral
N
NAFTA
NAMA
national schedules
national treatment
natural persons
Net food importing developing countries
non-agricultural products
non-trade concerns
notification
NTBs
NTMs
nuisance tariff
nullification and impairment
O
offer
open-ended
OTDS
Overcapacity (fishing)
Overfishing/overfished stocks
P
panel
Paragraph 6 system
parallel imports
Paris Convention
peace clause
Pillars, three
piracy
plurilateral
PPM
precautionary principle
Preferential trade arrangements (PTAs)
price undertaking
pro-rating
product-mandating
protocols
prudence, prudential
PSI
Public stockholding for food security purposes (PSH)
Q
QRs
Quad
R
Reform process/programme
Regional trade agreements (RTAs)
regionalization
Rome Convention
RTA
rules
rules of origin
S
SACU
safeguard measures
sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS)
schedule of concessions
Schedules
Sensitive products
Small, vulnerable economies (SVEs)
Special Agricultural Safeguard (SSG)
Special and differential treatment (S&D, SDT)
Special products (SP)
Special safeguard mechanism (SSM)
Special treatment
Specific tariff
Subsidy
T
Tariff binding
Tariff escalation
Tariff peaks
Tariff quota (tariff rate quota)
Tariff water ("tariff overhang")
Tariffication
The agriculture negotiation topics
Tiered formula
U
Uruguay Round
V
Variable import levy
W
waiver