Case Study Of The Sps Agreement Risk Assessment And Related Rules

On July 31st, 2009, with the application of China, the Dispute Settlement Bureau of the World Trade Organization summoned a panel to investigate whether the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2009 enacted by the United States breached certain provision of GATT1994, Agricultural Agreement and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measurement(latter referred to as"SPS Agreement"), and in the panel report published on September 29th in the same year supporting most of China's claims. This is the first time for China, as a complainant, to adopt SPS Agreement for the protection of its interest of exporting trade, which is of profound magnitude to change the adverse situation in a long time that China's products encounter the prohibition of SPS measures when exported to other countries. From a micro view of individual cases, this paper quotes many former cases concerning SPS Agreement to have a better understanding of risk assessment and many other related rules, so as to sort out the relationship between risk assessment, scientific evidence and temporary SPS measurement, etc. In the last part of the thesis, the author elaborates her own thinking of how China can make better use of the SPS Agreement for better protection of its domestic interest in international trade.