Global Trade

This web site deals with issues that are related to globalisation, especially to its market access aspects. Market access is an umbrella term for a number of measures that a country may use to restrict imports. The most common form of such restrictions are tariffs on imported goods. Non-tariff barriers to market access also exist for goods, such as technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures and standards. There are other services aimed at market access issues in general:

Global Trade Negotiations
EU External Trade
Market Access Database

This web site focus especially on non-tariff barriers in general, and especially on mandatory and voluntary technical market requisites. For an introduction to the market requisite concept, read my article in ISO Focus, June 2007.

Issues

Capacity development
Sustainable development
Quality Infrastructure