WTO Shares Info on Technical Barriers to Trade Related to COVID-19
Thirty-four World Trade Organization members have submitted 225 notifications pertaining to COVID-19 to the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, making up 46% of all COVID-19-related WTO notifications, the WTO Secretariat said in a note. These notifications primarily deal with…
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the "extraordinary and temporary streamlining of certification and related procedures and the introduction of new regulatory requirements for medical goods in response to the pandemic." Most of the notifications, 68%, covered regulations on medical goods including personal protective equipment, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The note said that since the TBT Committee's May 2020 meeting, WTO members referred to the pandemic in 54 trade concerns, most of which were not linked to COVID-19-related notifications or medical goods but the impacts of the pandemic on the members' economies.