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3.3 Implications of the WTO Trade Agreements 3.3.1 Relevant WTO Agreements for the global & Pakistani furniture sector The WTO Agreements in terms of degree of their relevance for the furniture sector can be divided into three categories: high intensity relevance, low intensity relevance and contingent relevance. Agreements possessing contingent relevance refer to those that come into effect in certain situations only. The degree of relevance of these agreements for the furniture sector is the same in Pakistan and elsewhere i.e. in other WTO member countries as well. The agreement, of direct relevance to the furniture sector, is GATT 1994. Other agreements having high level of relevance intensity are TRIPs, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), Rules of Origin and the Customs Valuation. The agreements of lesser relevance are on: Pre-Shipment Inspection and Import Licensing Procedures and Trade-relate Investment Measures. In the category of contingent relevance, agreements on Anti-Dumping, Subsidies, Countervailing, Safeguards and the DSU fall. The WTO Agreements not only influence the volume of trade but also affect the operational space of a policy-maker and market access of an individual exporter. A diagrammatic representation of the degree of relevance of the WTO Agreements for the furniture sector is given below. 58 International Trade Centre
Figure 3.3 Relevant intensity of WTO Agreements 9 TBT TRIPS Rules of origin* SPS Furniture Custom valuation GATT 1994 Preshipment inspection DSU** Agreement on SCM*** Antidumping Agreement on TRIMs Import licensing procedure High intensity relevance Low intensity relevance Contingent relevance * Acquires high intensity relevance in the context of Regional Trading Arrangements and or where any scheme of preferential tariffs has been adopted. ** Dispute Settlement Understanding *** Subsidies & Countervailing Measures Relevance of the specific WTO Agreements for the furniture sector in greater detail General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994: (Annex 1A to the Marrakech Agreement Establishing the WTO) The structure of GATT 1994 that lays down the framework within which the international trade of goods takes place. It rests upon five pillars that constitute the core of the legal obligations of the member countries. 9 Texts of Agreements are available on the WTO’s website www.wto.org International Trade Centre 59
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The Furniture Sector in Pakistan
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Acknowledgements The report was pre
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Abbreviations AFTA AHEC AKTRIN APFE
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Table of contents Acknowledgements
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Box 3.1 Multilateral discipline of
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Executive summary This study sets t
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the extent possible maintain or imp
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1 Background and objectives 1.1 EC
Page 17 and 18: 2 Furniture sector in Pakistan 2.1
Page 19 and 20: On the buyer’s side, there are gl
Page 21 and 22: According to the websites of import
Page 23 and 24: Global demand for furniture in main
Page 25 and 26: suppliers, both domestic and other
Page 27 and 28: Table 2.3 Pakistani furniture expor
Page 29 and 30: Figure 2.4 Distribution structure f
Page 31 and 32: freight rates have increased and do
Page 33 and 34: Price The prices of local machinery
Page 35 and 36: Indonesia has also announced a ban
Page 37 and 38: industry itself should support effo
Page 39 and 40: various counterparts, the supplier
Page 41 and 42: Box 2.7 UK Timber Trade Federation
Page 43 and 44: Figure 2.5 Simplified example on ch
Page 45 and 46: At least 70% of the wood used in ma
Page 47 and 48: Scope of joint ventures There exist
Page 49 and 50: • With FAO’s Forest Products an
Page 51 and 52: The contact information of many of
Page 53 and 54: Box 2.10 USAID initiative in the fu
Page 55 and 56: Opportunities Major opportunities m
Page 57 and 58: pressure on the price. There appear
Page 59 and 60: Pakistan does not export this furni
Page 61 and 62: 3.1.3 Functional scope The function
Page 63 and 64: Current status of efforts to libera
Page 65 and 66: 3.2.2 Information flow-upwards, i.e
Page 67: Commission (EC/EU) has established
Page 71 and 72: Box 3.2 Regional Trade Agreements (
Page 73 and 74: Trade Related Aspects of Intellectu
Page 75 and 76: Agreement on the application of san
Page 77 and 78: country or materially retards the e
Page 79 and 80: Relevance of the furniture sector T
Page 81 and 82: 3.4.2 Other countries’ access to
Page 83 and 84: Table 3.2 Top 10 buyers of the Paki
Page 85 and 86: Arabian market. Here again, there i
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Page 89 and 90: 4.2 Obstacles and shortcomings - im
Page 91 and 92: Raw material recovery Raw material
Page 93 and 94: • Consistent policy for supportin
Page 95 and 96: A short-term but maybe a costly mea
Page 97 and 98: 5 Export services in Pakistan 5.1 E
Page 99 and 100: 5.1.3 Federation of Pakistan Chambe
Page 101 and 102: • Pakistan International Freight
Page 103 and 104: The lessons learnt here could be re
Page 105 and 106: 6 Conclusion and recommendations 6.
Page 107 and 108: 6.2 Critical success factors • A
Page 109 and 110: 6.4 Global value chains 6.4.1 Poten
Page 111 and 112: Benefits All timber tends to be air
Page 113 and 114: • Optimise cutting; • Calculati
Page 115 and 116: 6.6.5 If we had US$100,000: A techn
Page 117 and 118: • To modernise such a laboratory,
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Annexes Annex A — Sources of info
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• Federmobili information on the
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• National Home Furnishings Assoc
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