international trade agreements and the future of spice sector anura herath economics research report no 18 unit department export agriculture july 2002 abstract spices historically currently have been an important sub economy sri lanka there are several government sponsored programmes supporting shows a notable growth during last two decades natural value added organic development potentials performance however depends on opportunities available in world market which mainly governed by this paper addresses conditions various their likely impacts pursuing options major markets for lankan comprises south asia middle east europe us american is leader cinnamon these depend tariff structure sps requirements will be access increase once import tariffs restructured under wto agreement most too stringent to comply with given current
