"The key insight of our work is that the global virus pandemic in honeybees
is human-made, not natural. It's therefore within our hands to mitigate this
and future disease problems."

The fact that the pandemic is both global and human-made clearly means that
it is NOT within OUR (beekeepers') hands to mitigate this.

Let me just try to list all the treaties and agreements that promote
completely unregulated "free trade", where what should be the cost of the
shipper to avoid shipping pests and pathogens are externalized on
bystanders, like agriculture, in the form of new invasive exotic pests and
pathogens.  Testing by impartial parties, rather than  mere self-serving
"self-certification" by shippers is not allowed under these treaties, under
penalty of retaliation, so governments throw their own farmers under the bus
all the time.  You and your bees are a poker chip to be traded by someone
who sees only short-term profits, and short-term politics.

First, the various "operating agreements" in force:

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European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - 1960		
		
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) - 1975		
		
Southern African Development Community (SADC) - 1980	
			
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - 1981				

Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) - 1991		
		
ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) - 1992			
	
Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) - 1992	
			
Central American Integration System (SICA) - 1993		
		
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) - 1994	
			
European Economic Area (EEA; European Union-Norway-Iceland-Lichtenstein) -
1994	
			
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - 1994


G-3 Free Trade Agreement (G-3) - 1995		
		
Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) -1997[2]		
		
Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) - 2004

		
South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) - 2004			
	
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP) - 2005		
		
ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) - 2010				

ASEAN-India Free Trade Area (AIFTA) - 2010			
	
Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Area (CISFTA) - 2011	
			
Pacific Alliance - 2012				

Second, the specific "World Trade" Agreements:	
		
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade		
		
GATT Agreement on Agriculture				

GATT Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

		
GATT Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade				

GATT Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures		
		
GATT Agreement on Anti-Dumping				

GATT Agreement on Customs Valuation			
	
GATT Agreement on Preshipment Inspection			
	
GATT European Trade Addendum			
	
GATT Agreement on Rules of Origin			
	
GATT Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures		
		
GATT Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures		
		
GATT Agreement on Safeguards				

General Agreement on Trade in Services				

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

		
Agreement on Government Procurement			
	
Information Technology Agreement				

The Bali Package				
				
And third, the list of proposed additional trade agreements:

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African Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) between SADC, EAC and COMESA	
			
Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)				

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)		
		
Association of Caribbean States (ACS)			
	
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)			
	
Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation (BIMSTEC)	
			
China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Agreement				

2011 Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Agreement (CISFTA)	
	
Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)				

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)			

Euro-Mediterranean free trade area (EU-MEFTA)			
	
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)		
		
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)			
	
Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP)				

GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM)
			
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)			
	
Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER and PACER Plus)

		
2021 Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA)			
	
People's Trade Treaty of Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)

		
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) (ASEAN plus 6)

		
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)			

Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA)				

Tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA)				

2014 Union of South American Nations (USAN)			

I am 100% certain to have left several out.  	

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