Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association.
A proposed plan to impose user fees on imported food to pay for
more inspectors and inspections of these products likely would run
against WTO See World Trade Organization. trade rules, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. the Grocery Manufacturers/Food
Products Association. Those rules require that imported products not be
subject to different treatment than are domestic products. Failure to
afford identical treatment could be construed as a non-tariff trade
barrier subject to challenge by other WTO members.
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