Peter Gallagher

The Devel­oped coun­tries have the biggest ‘store’ of mea­sures, but as this chart on the monthly noti­fi­ca­tion data over the past 6.5 years shows, Devel­op­ing coun­tries have become the most fre­quent source of new SPS bar­ri­ers. Inci­den­tally, the big devel­op­ing coun­try ‘spike’ in April 2002, when China notifed 140 bar­ri­ers in one month.

I recently pre­sented some detailed fre­quency analy­sis of SPS bar­ri­ers in the APEC region to the annual Con­fer­ence of APEC Cen­ters in Mel­bourne. You can find the slides and the paper on the APEC Cen­ter site.