ray hutstone wrote:Under WTO rules we are obliged not to differentiate between countries with which have no specific trade deals regarding such goods. It therefore follows that, if we fail to impose such checks on EU goods, we are seen to continue to favour them compared with other countries trading under WTO restrictions. Not rocket science really.
Ah, I wondered whether you were referring to WTO rules but, whilst there is indeed the 'no differentiation' principle, my understanding has been that SPS checks
can differentiate because they are required in any event to be proportionate to the risks, eg. to public health, posed by the goods and implicitly by their origin/the regime under which they were manufactured, reared, grown etc. So, grounded in (non-rocket) science, you might say.