Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/382 |
S-Summary§22 |
United States of America |
2018 |
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(...) Traditionally, federal assistance programmes have been in the form of grants, tax concessions, loan guarantees, and direct payments; they are listed in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), and are mostly related to public health and safety, the environment, education, infrastructure, community assistance, and research and development.
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Government TPR |
WT/TPR/G/374 |
G-II§64 |
Uruguay |
2018 |
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2.56. The Single Window for Foreign Trade (VUCE) is a trade facilitation mechanism whereby information and documents are electronically optimized and combined at a single entry point for the purpose of fulfilling all import, export and transit formalities.
measuring the impact of an initiative like VUCE involved constructing a triple set of impact indicators: (...) environmental impact.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/374/REV.1 |
S-III§118 |
Uruguay |
2018 |
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Conformity assessment procedures |
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3.117. The Uruguayan Accreditation Agency (OUA), set up in 1998, is tasked with accrediting conformity assessment bodies. The authorities consider that in this way it is helping to facilitate trade in Uruguayan goods and services
The OUA follows the international standards developed for the accreditation bodies to ensure the impartiality and transparency necessary to generate reliable products and services, with a view to promoting the sale of products and services on the international markets. The OUA is a member of Inter American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC). It is also a signatory to mutual recognition agreements with IAAC and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), as a testing and calibration laboratory accreditation agency, and with IAAC and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), as an agency for the accreditation of bodies certifying quality and environmental management systems and bodies responsible for product certification.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/374/REV.1 |
S-Table-A3.8 |
Uruguay |
2018 |
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Intellectual property measures |
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Table A3. 8 Overview of intellectual property rights in Uruguay, 2018
Legal framework Subject matter/scope Duration Comments, exclusions and limitations
Patents
Law No. 17.164 New inventions, whether products or processes, which involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application, pharmaceuticals and agro-chemicals included 20 years from the date of filing the application, non renewable (...)The following are not patentable: (...) inventions prejudicial to (...) the environment.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/378 |
S-II§53 |
Vanuatu |
2018 |
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Investment measures, Risk assessment |
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Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority (VIPA) is governed by a Board of Directors, which makes the overall decisions to approve investment application proposals. The Board evaluates the application, and may require the investor to submit an environment impact assessment. (...)
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/377 |
S-III§97 |
Chinese Taipei |
2018 |
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General environmental reference |
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The BSMI remains responsible for developing the statutory metrology system. The purpose of this system is to ensure fair trade, maintain proper public safety and health, and protect the environment (Article 5 of the Weights and Measures Act). (…)
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/377 |
S-Table-A3.8 |
Chinese Taipei |
2018 |
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Technical regulation or specifications |
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Table A3.8 CNS and their equivalence with international standards, end-2017
Area Total standards Existence of international standardsa (A) Number of standards equivalent to international standards (B) Standards equivalent to international standards (B)=Mandatory technical regulations (C)+Voluntary standards (D) Rate of equivalence (%) (E)=(B)/(A)×100
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Q Environmental management 52 50 50 0 50 100.0
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/372/REV.1 |
S-III§3 |
Colombia |
2018 |
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By Decree No. 390 of 7 March 2016 the Government established a new Customs Statute aimed at compiling, updating and simplifying Colombia's regulations and adjusting them to best international practices, in order to facilitate trade and implement Colombia's commitments under trade agreements. Decree No. 390 also seeks to strengthen risk management in customs control so as to (...) prevent environmental (...) risks (...)
3.5. The main changes introduced by Decree No. 390 include, inter alia, the harmonization of terminology, processes and procedures with international standards; a new comprehensive risk management system as a fundamental pillar for the exercise of customs control; new requirements and categories of foreign trade operators classified on the basis of risk, and the elimination of previous types of special treatment (...)
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/372/REV.1 |
S-III§22 |
Colombia |
2018 |
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Regulation affecting movement or transit |
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There are several regimes for goods transit: customs transit, cabotage and transhipment. (…) Goods under the transit regime may enter through any of Colombia's ports of entry, but the DIAN is empowered to prohibit or restrict access on grounds of (...) environmental reasons, at the request of the competent authorities, or where for control reasons it deems it desirable to do so. (...)
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/372/REV.1 |
S-III§77 |
Colombia |
2018 |
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Import licences |
All products/economic activities |
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Automatic import licensing or import registration is used to ensure that the goods to be imported comply with the requirements, permits or prior authorizations (health certificates, phytosanitary and zoosanitary certificates, technical regulations, environmental regulations, etc.) imposed by control entities.
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