Background 
Objectives
Brief Report
Case Studies 

Background
The CUTS-Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS-CITEE), Jaipur, India with the cooperation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva, Switzerland has organised an International Workshop, ‘Negotiating Agenda for Market Access: Cases of SPS and TBT’ on 24-25 April, 2001 at Geneva, Switzerland. 

The open-ended results of the Uruguay Round negotiations reflect how instruments can be framed to protect interests under a rule-based system, sometimes even at the cost of free trade. Reflections on such open-ended results are found in ‘WTO-Rules’.  The term ‘WTO-Rules’ is generally used in the WTO parlance to signify certain agreements or provisions, for instance Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Measures (SPS), Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), etc. 

The meeting was focus on enhancing the participants’ capacity, especially those from the least developed countries, to understand and respond to SPS and TBT issues. It endeavoured to demystify issues related to these rules vis-à-vis negotiating market access. 

Objectives
The objectives of the workshop were,
 

• provide an interactive platform to participants, especially those from the least developed countries, to express their concerns on how trade rules are affecting market access potentialities of their economies, and their impact on livelihood security with the

   

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