Deals with international standards concerning animal health.

An organization of nations formed in 1922 to identify problems in geography, initiate and coordinate research involving several countries, and organize the International Geographic Congresses.

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is an intergovernmental organisation that provides a scientific forum for the exchange of information and ideas on the sea and its living resources.

Encompasses any measure which acts to maintain producer prices at levels above those prevailing in international trade; direct payments to producers, including deficiency payments, and input and marketing cost reduction measures available only for agricultural production.

An in-quota tariff is the tariff applied on imports within a tariff-rate quota. The in-quota tariff is less than the over-quota tariff.

Also called: "import dependency indicator" and "import penetration indicator", it measures the extent of domestic demand fulfilled by imports.

Imports of goods and services (merchandise trade) are goods which add to the stock of material resources of a country by entering its economic territory.

Imports of goods and services consist of purchases, barter, or receipts of gifts or grants, of goods and services by residents from non- residents. The treatment of exports and imports in the System of National Accounts is generally identical with that in the balance of payments accounts as described in the Balance of Payments Manual.

Import subsidies consist of subsidies on goods and services that become payable to resident producers when the goods cross the frontier of the economic territory or when the services are delivered to resident institutional units

Import quotas are restrictions on the quantity and or value of imports of specific commodities for some given time period, which are administered globally, selectively or bilaterally