What is the WTO/TBT Agreement?
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) was created in 1995 to ensure that technical regulations, standards, and testing and certification procedures do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade. To read the text of the TBT agreement, click here. Additional presentations by the Indian Ministry of Commerce and the U.S. DoC explored the key principles of the WTO/TBT agreement from the public-sector perspective, while ANSI and BIS speakers examined the agreement from the private-sector perspective. During the second half of the event, an industry roundtable discussion brought together representatives from private sector, including ANSI members Underwriters Laboratories, ASME, and Microsoft. Representing Indian industry, the Indian Chemical Council, the Telecom Engineering Centre, and BIS provided insight on the pharmaceutical/chemical, telecom, and electrical/electrotechnical sectors, respectively. Building upon the tripartite Memorandum of Unders
