CIMA Use by trade negotiators

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CIMA Use by trade negotiators

• Umpika Poonnachit
• Mission of Thailand to the WTO

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Problems for market access

• Standard (public private)
• SPS issues (i.e. pests, chemicals, food safety)
• Tariff and quota
• Price competitiveness (level of subsidy in the
  US)

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Calculation of CIMA

• Standard (public private)
• SPS issues (i.e. pests, chemicals, food safety)
• - the data of expenses for complying with these
  2 sections (PLC, PLP, SPC) are difficult to find
  in Thailand (no data collection?)
• - the expenses should be higher than in the
  country report

4
Calculation of CIMA

• Tariff and quota
• - layer of flexibilities in MA pillar which will
  affect tariff and quota expansion (SeP) in
  importing countries
• - Sensitive Products (SeP)
• - Special Products
• - about 65 of rice export to DCs (about half of
  that amount to G-33 countries)

5
Rice export to DCs
China, Benin, Cote d Ivorie , Nigeria,
Senegal, Indonesia, Philippines, Ghana, Cameroon
(some are LDCs)
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Calculation of CIMA

• Price competitiveness (level of subsidy in the
  US)
• - Interesting to see how this term be collected
  and added up in CIMA