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USDA-FAS-10960-0200-10-21-0004: Developing A Framework For Quantifying And Analysing Non-Tariff Measures

Closed Closed August 16, 2021 Opportunity USDA-FAS-10960-0200-10-21-0004 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$200,000
• Award floor$1
• Total funding$200,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeOther

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to colleges and universities.

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Technical Agricultural Assistance awards averaged $424,902; this notice allows up to $200,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Program Overview International trade is very important to United States agriculture, with 20 percent of all US farm products exported. U.S. agriculture and food industries produce and export a diverse array of products. In 2020, U.S. agricultural exports reached $150 billion compared to imports of $146 billion. All administrations have emphasized the need for open foreign market opportunities to expand U.S. exports for U.S. agricultural communities. The ability of the U.S. to remain competitive in global agricultural markets depends not only preferential tariffs negotiated through trade agreements, but increasingly on non-tariff measures (NTMs), examples of which include non-automatic licenses, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures such as veterinary drug standards, maximum residue limits, and phytosanitary protocols, food safety and regulatory standards (i.e., maximum limits (MLs) on food additives), and control, inspection and approval procedures. NTMs are becoming increasingly important in regulating the access of the United States to several key markets for many of the major agricultural commodities. Thus, NTMs affect United States trade opportunities and the ability of rural America to thrive in a competitive global economy. While foreign tariffs remain high on some U.S. agricultural products, many economists agree that non- tariff obstacles are more obscure in nature and have the potential to be more trade distorting. Thus, in addition to tariffs, complex non- tariff issues remain and need to be assimilated into quantitative approaches to evaluate U.S. agricultural trade opportunities, as well as for the nearly four billion producers and consumers that reside in low income developing countries. Among NTMs affecting agricultural trade, measures falling under the WTO’s Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures occupy a special place. First, SPS measures are pervasive because of divergent perceptions about protection of plant and animal health, food safety and consumer information about product and quality standards among countries. Second, the SPS agreement permits WTO member countries to adopt their own health and safety regulations provided these measures are based on a scientific risk assessment, not discriminatory between countries with similar conditions, and are minimally trade distorting to prevent the disingenuous use as instruments of disguised protectionism.

Category: Agriculture.

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