{"id":35665,"date":"2013-05-15T20:19:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35665"},"modified":"2013-05-15T20:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:19:28","slug":"concerns-over-bahamas-growing-trade-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/concerns-over-bahamas-growing-trade-bureaucracy","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Over Bahamas&#8217; Growing Trade Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35668\" title=\"red-tape-bureaucracy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/red-tape-bureaucracy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/red-tape-bureaucracy.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/red-tape-bureaucracy-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A well-known fiscal hawk expressed \u201cmajor concern\u201d that Bahamian taxpayers would foot an ever-increasing bill to support the bureaucracies this nation is being forced to create through its international trade commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Lowe, an executive with the Nassau Institute think-tank, spoke out as Tribune Business uncovered details on a three-strong package of Bills designed to bring the Bahamas into compliance with its sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) obligations under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and World Trade Organisation (WTO).<\/p>\n<p>The Bills &#8211; the Animal Health and Production Bill, the Food Safety Bill and the Plant Protection Bill &#8211; each create a new supervisory body to oversee the specific regulatory regime they usher in.<\/p>\n<p>The Animal Health and Production Bill requires the creation of a National Veterinary Service; the Food Safety Bill ushers in a Food Safety and Quality Authority; and the latter Bill calls for a National Plant Protection Organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nassau Institute think-tank executive is concerned Bahamians will have to foot a growing bill to support bureaucracies the nation is being forced to create through international trade commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153,98,40,49,101],"class_list":["post-35665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-business-2","tag-financial","tag-government","tag-law","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}