Resources
WTO databases offer users the possibility of consulting a wealth of trade-related information. The resources available in this website will allow users to search for all publicly available WTO documents related to market access, SPS and TBT, as well as to other topics.
Learn more about the CTG: WTO | Council for Trade in Goods
Consult SPS and TBT notifications: ePing SPS&TBT Platform
Learn more about CMA: WTO | Market access for goods
Learn more about IL: WTO | Import licensing
Learn more about SPS: WTO | Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
Learn more about TBT: WTO | Technical Barriers to Trade
HSTracker
HS Tracker
Navigate through all HS versions.
Definition of Terms
STC – Specific trade concern, or trade concern
SPS - Sanitary and phytosanitary
TBT – Technical barriers to trade
CMA – Committee on Market Access
IL – Import licensing
Member raising – A Member who includes, in the agenda of a given Committee meeting, a concern on another Member's measure.
Member supporting – A Member who supports concerns raised on another Member's measure, but does not include it in the agenda of a given Committee meeting.
Member responding – A Member who maintains, or plans to adopt, a measure that is subject to concern among its trade partners.
Resolved concern – A concern for which all Members raising it have reported on its resolution at the WTO.
Partially resolved concern – A concern for which either some of the Members raising have reported on its resolution, or for which a solution has been reported for some of the products of concern, at the WTO.
Not reported – A concern for which no solution has been reported at the WTO. At any time, a solution might have been reached without the WTO being informed.
HS Codes – The Harmonized System Nomenclature (codes and descriptions)