What If … A Government Banned Imports Of Your Product?

An exporter of agricultural products from Country A confronted an immediate ban on imports of its products into Country B because of a change to that country’s quarantine laws aimed at preventing the introduction of certain animal diseases.

Tanda lobbied the Quarantine and Trade Authorities of Country B, explained that the new laws would breach the WTO Sanitary & Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement, negotiated a re-draft of the legislation to incorporate OIE standards and proved that the client’s manufacturing processes complied with those standards. Trade in the products was allowed to resume.