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Developing Disharmony? The SPS and TBT Agreements and the Impact of Harmonization on Developing Countries

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The purpose of this article is to evaluate the benefits of legal harmonization within the framework of international trade law, with a particular focus on development and the effects on developing countries. It will begin with theoretical and normative claims for and against harmonization, and then turn to the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade in order to explore these claims within a specific context. Overall, we will see that harmonization is largely an ineffective tool for dealing with development issues. While it is important to develop institutional capacity in developing countries to deal with health, safety and technical standards, across-the-board harmonization fails to recognize the need for countries to adapt laws and legal institutions to domestic conditions. My exposition of the impact that the international trade regime can have on developing countries through a relatively circumscribed policy area, SPS and TBT measures, points to the need for anticipating similar impacts in other areas in which the international trade regime promotes legal harmonization. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

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  • Graham Mayeda, 2004. "Developing Disharmony? The SPS and TBT Agreements and the Impact of Harmonization on Developing Countries," Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, vol. 7(4), pages 737-764, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jieclw:v:7:y:2004:i:4:p:737-764
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    1. Engler, Alejandra & Nahuelhual, Laura & Cofré, Gabriela & Barrena, Jose, 2012. "How far from harmonization are sanitary, phytosanitary and quality-related standards? An exporter’s perception approach," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 162-170.
    2. Shekar Bose & Amina Marhoon Rashid Al Naabi & Houcine Boughanmi & Jaynab Begum Yousuf, 2019. "Domestic Ban Versus Border Rejections: A Case of Oman’s Fish Exports to the EU," SAGE Open, , vol. 9(1), pages 21582440188, January.
    3. Fartousi, Hassan, 2023. "A Portrait of Trade in Cultural Goods: in respect of the WTO and the UNESCO Instruments in the Context of Hard-Law and Soft-Law," Papers 1410, World Trade Institute.

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