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Agrifood exports in ASEAN: Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
Publication date 29 September 2020 | 22:16 | ICT

Market access is primarily conceived in terms of the removal of tariff barriers to trade, and in that sense, ASEAN has been remarkably successful in negotiating tariffs downward over the past two decades.

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