OMC Restricciones cuantitativas

Canadá #5584 (v.1)

Datos básicos

Notificada en
Validez de la versión
01/10/2018 - actual
Versión activa actual v.1
Miembro informante
Canadá
En vigor desde
Fecha de supresión
En vigor
Descripción general
Conditional prohibition on the import of certain toxic substances
Fundamento jurídico nacional
Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.

The PCTSR first came into force on April 30, 1996. The regulations were last amended on November 24, 2017.
Mecanismo administrativo
The PCTSR is administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Some substances listed to the PCTSR are also listed to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
The PCTSR was previously notified to the following WTO Committees:
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/CAN/340 (12 August 2011)
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/CAN/340/ADD.1 (22 January 2013)
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/CAN/443 (24 April 2015)
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/CAN/443/ADD.1 (12 October 2016)
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/CAN/502 (16 November 2016),
• Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/CAN/502/ADD.1 (18 December 2017)
Entidades responsables
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Versión del SA
HS 2017
Signatura de la OMC a que se hace referencia

Metadatos

Justificaciones en el marco de la OMC

XX:(b) - (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Notificada como: Article XX (b) of the GATT
Compromisos Internacionales (distintos de los asumidos en el marco de la OMC)
Interlocutores afectados
Interlocutores no afectados

Medidas

Restricciones notificadas
CP
Signatura
CP

Líneas arancelarias
Various
Toxic substances as listed in the Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations, 2012 (PCTSR)...
29
HS Chapter 29
Toxic substances as listed in the Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations, 2012 (PCTSR)...