WTO Working Papers
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- ISSN: 25189808 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.30875/4445c521-en
Addressing Tensions and Avoiding Disputes
Specific Trade Concerns in the TBT Committee
Most specific trade concerns (STCs), which are raised before the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Committee), disappear from the TBT Committee’s meeting agendas without escalating into formal disputes. At the same time, a relatively small number of TBT-related disputes have been subject to the WTO dispute settlement procedures. By examining the practice of raising STCs and the relationship between STCs and disputes, the paper emphasises the role of STCs as a trade tension resolution mechanism.
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