Article XXb of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement prohibit health safety measures which are unreasonable restrictions on trade, which WTO case law has shown to mean not based upon sound scientific principles or international...

This paper examines the compliance of preferential trade agreements in favour of developing countries including the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) scheme and the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA)s with the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a consequence...