The World Trade Organization (WTO) has made US exporters of rice and other grains glad after coming up with a decision that European Union's (EU) moratorium scheme on the enhancement of farm goods using biotechnology has the capability of providing long-term benefits to global trading countries. The said decision affirmed that the legal permission used by the EU could support other developing states because it possesses majority of science reaffirmation, and policies that are derived from global trading programs, according to the leading exporters and organizations of grains today.



The North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA) and National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) made an appeal to the EU and to majority of its member countries to make sure that their regulatory and monitoring systems and rules covering the GMOs and biotech-modified commodities are in compliance to the decision of the WTO's policies and decisions. The two associations of grain exporters in America also applauded the persistence of the US and as surely as other concerned nations for their incessant efforts in pushing through to the said case.

Both the NFGA and the NAEGA are leading associations of grain exporters in the US that are situated in Washington. The orgs emboldened other member nations of the WTO to utilize the said decision as a chance to harmonize the time for approvals and regulatory reviews of biotechnology-modified farm products to expedite global and multilateral trade in seeds and grains.

The much-awaited decision of the WTO was officially published on the 29th of September and has to undergo a 60-day time frame for the appeals. The said case was filed by Canada, US, and Argentina three years ago. Other grain exporters from nations like Chile, Columbia, Mexico, and four more nations have supported the said case.

Leaders of the above mentioned organizations affirmed that the panel agreement of the Geneva-based organization is superbly necessary because it has given a clear-cut direction on the policies that it implements in its member countries that are also exporters of agricultural products.

They said that long-term rules indicate that the WTO members are required to carry out updated, and biotech-based regulating schemes that will govern farm commodities shipped by exporters in the multilateral markets.

They also added that the effect of the decision embraces the farm goods that are based from the biotechnology. Thus, it will highly create a healthy and technology-derived regulating program for international trading of farm goods. Both organizations also mentioned that the WTO decision was important because it was able to input a direct rule on the global regulation of technologically-enhances goods like the GMOs that are admonistered by the body's Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement or SPS. The SPS requires member exporters to employ the help of science in ensuring the protection of enhanced agriculture goods for men, animals, and environment.

The newly published WTO decision declared that EU was not able to give a science-based proof for its moratorium. More than that, the WTO discovered that EU's permit was created on June 1999. The NAEGA and NGFA clamored that the said decision should become the benchmark in creating additional regulatory schemes of grain exporters. The two exporters associations are determined to maintain the productivity of the commercial trade of grains and other farm goods.