Table 1.

INFORMAS Trade Monitoring Framework. Suggested step-wise framework for monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on national food environments.

Domain:	‘Minimal’ approach:
1. Trade in goods	• Provisions in text relating to tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, including tariff-rate quotas, import licensing and price-banding) and specific food categories affected by these provision • Total food import volumes • Focus food category import volumes • Rate of change in total food import volumes • Rate of change in focus food category import volumes • Actual and bound tariff rates for focus food categories • Tariff-rate quotas for focus food categories •Tariff differential (if any) between healthy and unhealthy focus food categories
2. Trade in services & FDI	• Provisions in text relating to restrictions on foreign ownership, intellectual property (IP) protection, performance requirements for foreign investors, and national treatment • Type and country of origin of all foreign-owned TFCs operating in country • FDI investment in food production, processing, retail and advertising sectors (monetary value) • Rate of change in total inward FDI in food and related sectors (including communications and advertising)
3. Domestic protections & supports	• Provisions in text relating to domestic protections and supports such as agricultural safeguards, special treatment of agricultural products, anti-dumping and countervailing measures, agricultural supports and export subsidies and promotion
4. Policy space & governance	• Provisions in text relating to domestic policy space and governance (including government procurement, enforcement, transparency, dispute settlement and government regulation of food marketing, composition, labelling)