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Subsidies and Countervailing Measures | G/SCM/N/243/ATG | Antigua and Barbuda | 2012 | General environmental protection | Tax concessions | All products/economic activities | Free Trade and Processing Zone Act No. 12 of 1994 |
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Subsidies and Countervailing Measures | G/SCM/N/211/ATG | 2010 | Sustainable and environmentally friendly…
Sustainable and environmentally friendly production
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Tax concessions | All products/economic activities |
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Subsidies and Countervailing Measures | G/SCM/N/284/ATG ; G/SCM/N/290/ATG ; G/SCM/N/299/ATG ; G/SCM/N/315/ATG | 2018 | General environmental protection | Other support measures | Manufacturing, Services |
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Subsidies and Countervailing Measures | G/SCM/N/275/ATG | Antigua and Barbuda | 2014 | General environmental protection | Other support measures | Manufacturing, Services | Free Trade and Processing Zone Act No. 12 of 1994…
Free Trade and Processing Zone Act No. 12 of 1994 (an Act to attract foreign and local private investment and capital for various Manufacturing and Service entities). The act contains a section on environmental protection (section 17)
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Regional Trade Agreements | S/C/N/1025 ; WT/REG420/N/1 | Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica,…
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
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2021 | General environmental protection | Environmental provisions in trade agreements | All products/economic activities | The Economic Partnership Agreement between the…
The Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (the CARIFORUM-UK EPA) is based on the CARIFORUM EPA. The CARIFORUM-UK EPA establishes a free trade area for trade in goods, within the meaning of Article XXIV of the GATT 1994, and for trade in services, within the meaning of Article V of the GATS.
The CARIFORUM-UK EPA covers trade in goods, including rules of origin, preferential tariffs and quotas as well as investment and trade in services. It also contains provisions on current payments and capital movements, competition, innovation and intellectual property, public procurement, environment and social aspects, development cooperation as well as dispute settlement and institutional provisions. |
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Agriculture | G/AG/N/GTM/53 | Guatemala | 2016 | Afforestation/reforestation | Grants and direct payments | Agriculture, Forestry | Environmental programmes:
Forests and Water Trust…
Environmental programmes:
Forests and Water Trust Fund for Concord |
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Agriculture | G/AG/N/GTM/48 | 2015 | Afforestation/reforestation | Grants and direct payments | Agriculture, Forestry |
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Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures | G/SPS/N/GTM/65 | Guatemala | 2016 | Sustainable agriculture management, Sustainable…
Sustainable agriculture management, Sustainable and environmentally friendly production
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Conformity assessment procedures, Regulation…
Conformity assessment procedures, Regulation affecting movement or transit, Technical regulation or specifications
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Agriculture | Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No…
Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 67.06.74:16: Organic agricultural products. Requirements governing production, processing, marketing, exportation, importation and labelling
The notified Regulation establishes the provisions and procedures governing the production, registration, certification, processing, labelling, storage, transport and marketing of organic agricultural products. It applies to the following products that carry or should carry a descriptive label relating to organic production methods. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/GTM/90 | Guatemala | 2016 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Government Decision No. 87-2011: Regulation…
Government Decision No. 87-2011: Regulation governing the registration and the renewal, endorsement (authorization for use) and transfer of the registration of pesticide-related substances, microbial pesticides, biochemical pesticides, arthropods, predators, parasites and parasitoids; laying down requirements for the importation, exportation and return of these products; and governing the registration of natural and legal persons associated with these inputs with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food)
The notified Regulation governs the registration and the renewal, endorsement (authorization for use) and transfer of the registration of pesticide-related substances, microbial pesticides, biochemical pesticides, arthropods, predators, parasites and parasitoids; lays down requirements for the importation, exportation and return of these products; and governs the registration of natural and legal persons associated with these inputs with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/GTM/92 | Guatemala | 2016 | Sustainable agriculture management, Sustainable…
Sustainable agriculture management, Sustainable and environmentally friendly production
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Technical regulation or specifications | Agriculture | Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No…
Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 67.06.74:16: Organic agricultural products. Requirements governing production, processing, marketing, exportation, importation and labelling
The notified Regulation establishes the provisions and procedures governing the production, registration, certification, processing, labelling, storage, transport and marketing of organic agricultural products. It applies to the following products that carry or should carry a descriptive label relating to organic production methods. A product is considered to carry information concerning organic production methods when the label or property claims, including advertising material and commercial documents, describe the product or its ingredients using the terms " organic ", " biological ", " ecological " or other similar internationally recognised vocabulary, including abbreviated forms, which suggest to the buyer that the product or its ingredients have been obtained via organic production methods in the country in which they have been put on the market. |
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