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Delivering market access for the Australian grain trade
AGICGrowersDay– July2016
GTA Vision
§ An efficient, equitable and open commercial grain industry in Australia
GTA Mission
§ To facilitate trade by providing products, services and advocacy for the Australian grain value chain
Trade & market access
§ Increasing activity across trade & market access issues
§ Domestic and global involvement
§ Established specialist technical committees to support this activity
§ GTA uniquely placed as operates across the supply chain
GTA supporting trade & market access activity
§ Expanding global trade
§ Changing nature of barriers in the global economy
§ Increasing technical regulations and standards
§ GTA trade and market access activity
§ TMAC
§ IGTC
Market access in a changing global economy
Global grain trade today – buyers and sellers
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NorthAmerica
Caribbean
CentralAmerica
SouthAmerica
NorthAfrica
Sub-SaharanAfrica
Europe
RussiaUkraine
EastAsia
SoutheastAsia
Oceania
SouthAsia
MiddleEast
Imported
Exported
§ Trade contributes to economic performance
o Improved productivity
o Provides access to greater variety of products/prices
o Stimulates competition, technology and investment flows
§ Tariff trade barriers
o Trend towards liberalisation
o Main tangible benefit of FTAs
§ Shifting focus to non-tariff barriers to trade
Changing nature of trade barriers
§ Shift to focus on:
o Non-tariff/technical barriers to trade
o Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures
§ Tighter requirements can increase
o Costs
o Legal and compliance requirements
o Difficulty of implementation
§ Policies often based on zero tolerance or reduced limits
§ Emerging environmental and sustainability requirements to meet societal expectations
Technical barriers to trade are strengthening
§ Biotechnology
o Zero tolerance policies and asynchronous authorisations increasing compliance risk and costs
§ Plant Protection
o Diverging/tightening maximum residue limits
§ Sustainability
o Alignment of environment, social and agriculture goals
o Misalignment in ways of demonstrating compliance
o Associated costs for certification
Emerging global challenges
§ Encourage forward-looking policies in FTAs to minimise non tariff / technical barriers
o Science based regulatory systems
o Acknowledge “zero” risk does not exist
o Commercially acceptable solutions
o Risk mitigation methods: maximize the value of grain products and minimize cost inefficiencies along the supply chain
§ International initiatives
o Standardisation & adoption of internationally recognised standards
o Promotion of low level presence policies
o Mutual recognition of risk assessments
Global grain trade solutions
COCERAL
GAFTA
NAEGA,NCGA,NGFA,USGC,USW,CRA
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ANIAME,APPAMEX
SESPA
RGU
ABIOVEANEC
CEC
GTA,AGEA
CGC
CNFACNAGS
SOPA
CAPECO
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IGTC membership – 22 organisations, 8000 members, 80 countrieswww.igtcglobal.org
GTA working with global grain industry through IGTC
Active IGTC Working Groups
ActiveIGTCTeams Keyobjective
InternationalStandardonPhytosanitoryMeasuresontheInternationalMovementofGrain
DeveloppolicyregardingthedraftingprocessoftheGrainStandard
GlobalLowLevelPresence(LLP)initiative
AddressallmattersrelatedtoLLP,includingGlobalLow-LevelInitiative(GLI),definitions
CartagenaProtocolonBiodiversity PolicydevelopmentforupcomingCOP/MOPmeetings
E-Documentationforgraintrading Assesspotentialintroductionofe-Phytos onaglobalbasisviaadedicatedIThub
NewPlantBreedingTechniques(NPBTs) PrepareIGTCpolicytoenhancesciencebasedapproachtoregulationofNPBTs
MaximumResidueLevels(MRLs) Newworkinggroup.
§ Trade and market access increasingly important activity for GTA
§ GTA works closely with GGL, GIMAF and other stakeholders
§ GTA leveraging global linkages
§ Technical trade barriers increasing – benefits sometimes less tangible
§ Potentially significant economic and compliance impacts for Australian growers, exporters and supply chain
§ Seeking to develop domestic and global policies and approaches to minimise impacts and constraints to trade, thus enabling trade to continue in an efficient and equitable manner
Concluding comments
