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30 November 2023  
(23-8156) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish  
 
  
RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY BOLIVIA ON PERUVIAN  
AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS (STC NO. 530) 
COMMUNICATION FROM PERU  
The following communication, received on 29 November 2023, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of Peru. 
 
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1.  Peru would like, once again, to express before WTO Memb ers its specific trade concern regarding 
various restrictive measures that, since 2017, have been preventing the entry into Bolivia of Peruvian 
exports of whole trout.  
2.  It is important to point out that, six years ago, the Bolivian health authority official ly 
communicated to Peru the approval of the health certificate for the exportation of fresh or 
chilled/whole or loose trout, along with the corresponding commitments to allow the export of whole 
trout to Bolivia.  
3.  However, despite the fact that the Peruvian  health authority has been carrying out activities at 
the border that would allow trout to be marketed and a safe and healthy product to be guaranteed, 
Bolivia continues to prevent the entry of this product even though a health certificate was agreed 
upon over six years ago.  
4.  As a result, Peru has been expressing its deep concern about Bolivia's disregard for the 
international commitments taken on under the WTO SPS Agreement that relate to the principle of 
transparency, as Bolivia has failed to even notify W TO Members of any of its domestic standards, 
let alone provide a 60 -day comment period for other countries.  
5.  In light of the above, we ask Bolivia to rescind any restrictions in place on exports of whole 
Peruvian trout.  
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