On June 20, 2017, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), in consultation with the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC), published in the Federal Register a notice [Docket No. USTR–2017–0008]
Member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are required under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) to report to the WTO all proposed technical regulations that could affect trade with other Member countries. The WTO Secretariat distributes this information in the form of “notifications” to all Member countries. The chart below summarizes notifications from the WTO in English received and posted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) during the past month.