Areas the Agreement does not cover: |
The agreement specifies that the following are not covered by the present agreement :
- Necessary to protect public morals or maintain public order
- Necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health
- Necessary to secure compliance with laws and regulations which are consistent with the provision of the WTO
- Necessary to protect intellectual property rights or to prevent deceptive trade practices.
- Relating to transfer of gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones, including precious and strategic metals
- Imposed for the protection of national treasures of artistic, historic or archaeological value
- Necessary to prevent or relieve critical shortages of food stuffs or other products essential to the exporting contracting party.
- Relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources and the environment.
- Necessary to ensure compliance with existing obligations under international agreements.
- Relating to import restrictions, that do not discriminate among exporting countries, on agricultural products necessary to the enforcement of Government measures, which import restrictions operate:
- To restrict the quantities of the like domestic products permitted to be marketed or produced.
- To remove a temporary surplus of the like domestic products.
- Relating to import and export restrictions taken in time of war or any other emergency.
- Necessary to safeguard the balance of payments
- Strategic and sensitive products shall be exempted from obligations of this agreement.
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