Trade Acronyms
Common Agricultural Trade Acronyms
AD – Antidumping
AGOA – African Growth and Opportunity Act
AMS – Aggregate Measure of Support
AoA – Agreement on Agriculture
APHIS – USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ATPA – Andean Trade Preferences Act
AVE – Ad Valorem Equivalent
BIT – Bilateral Investment Treaty
CAFTA-DR – Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
CAP – Common Agricultural Policy (in the EU)
CBI – Caribbean Basin Initiative
CFTA – Canada Free Trade Agreement
CVD – Countervailing Duty
DDA – Doha Development Agenda
DET – Deferential Export Tax(es)
DSB – Dispute Settlement Body (in the WTO)
DSU – Dispute Settlement Understanding
EC – European Commission
ERS – USDA’s Economic Research Service
EU – European Union
FAO – United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization
FAS – USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service
FDI – Foreign Direct Investment
FTA – Free Trade Agreement
FTAA – Free Trade Area of the Americas
GATT – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP – Gross Domestic Product
GI – Geographic Indication(s)
GSP – Generalized System of Preferences
HS – Harmonized System (Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System)
IMF – International Monetary Fund
IPR – Intellectual Property Rights
KORUS – Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement
LDC – Least Developed Country
MERCOSUR – Southern Common Market
MFN – Most Favored Nation (treatment)
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
NAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement
NAMA – Non-Agricultural Market Access
NER – Nominal Exchange Rate
NFIDC – Net Food-Importing Developing Country
NGO – Non-Governmental Organization
NTB – Non-Tariff Barrier
NTM – Non-Tariff Measure
NTR – Normal Trade Relations
OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
PNTR – Permanent Normal Trade Relations
PTA – Preferential Trade Agreement
ROO – Rules of Origin
RTA – Regional Trade Agreement
SPS – Sanitary and Phytosanitary
SRM – Specified Risk Material
SSG – Special Safeguard
SSM – Special Safeguard Mechanism
STE – State Trading Enterprise
TAA – Trade Adjustment Assistance
TBT – Technical Barrier to Trade
TPA – Trade Promotion Authority
TPP – Trans Pacific Partnership
TRIMS – Trade Related Investment Measures
TRIPS – Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
TRQ – Tariff Rate Quota
TTIP – Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
URAA – Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture
USAID – United States Agency for International Development
USDA – United States Department of Agriculture
USITC – United States International Trade Commission
USTR – United States Trade Representative
VAT – Value-Added Tax
WB – World Bank
WFP – World Food Program
WTO – World Trade Organization