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Glossary

A guide to “WTO speak”. When you click on a term, an explanation will appear in a new window.


 

This glossary is designed to help understanding of some of the terms used in the WTO and in international trade. While every effort has been made to ensure that they are accurate, the definitions in this dictionary do not constitute authoritative interpretations of the legal texts of the WTO and are presented for illustrative purposes only. Nor is the glossary comprehensive.

More terms are available in the WTO Terminology Database (WTOTERM).

 

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C
accession
accounting rate
ACP
ad valorem tariff
Agenda 2000
Agenda 21
agricultural product
Amber Box
Andean Community
anti-dumping duties
APEC
Appellate Body
Applied rates
Article XX
ASEAN
ATC
automaticity
Basel Convention
Berne Convention
binding, bound
BIT
border protection
box
BSE
BTA
Cabotage
Cairns Group
CAP
Caricom
carry forward
carry over
CBD
circumvention
CITES
Codex Alimentarius
commercial presence
compulsory licensing
counterfeit
countervailing measures
CTD
CTE
CTG
customs union
D E
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F

decoupled income support
deficiency payment
de minimis
digits, digit-level
distortion
domestic support
DSB
DSU
dumping

EC
EEP
EFTA
electronic commerce
enquiry point
EST
EST&P
EU
ex ante, ex post
exhaustion
export-performance measure

FDI
food security
free trade area
free-rider

G H
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I

G7
G77
G8
GATS
GATT
general obligations
generic
geographical indications
government use
green box
GRULAC
GSP

Harmonized System
harmonizing formula
HLM

Independent entity
initial commitments
integration programme
intellectual property rights
internal support
International Office of Epizootics
IPRs
ITA II
ITA
ITC

J K
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L

LCA
LDCs
Lisbon Agreement
local-content measure

M N
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O

Madrid Agreement
mailbox
MEA
Members
MERCOSUR
metadata
MFA
MFN
MFN (most-favoured-nation) tariff
modality
modes of delivery
Montreal Protocol
multifunctionality
multi-modal

NAFTA
national schedules
national treatment
natural persons
non-agricultural products
non-trade concerns
notification
NTBs
NTMs
nuisance tariff
nullification and impairment

offer
P Q
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R

panel
parallel imports
Paris Convention
peace clause
piracy
PPM
Precautionary principle
price undertaking
product-mandating
protocols
prudence, prudential
PSI

QRs
Quad

reform process/programme
regionalization
Rome Convention
rules of origin

S

T

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U

S&D
SACU
safeguard measures
schedule
schedule of concessions
Singapore issues
special safeguard
specific commitments
specific tariff
SPS
subsidy
swing

tariff binding
tariff escalation
tariff line (TL in the tables)
tariff peaks
tariff quota
tariffication
tariffs
TBT
TMB
TPRB, TPRM
trade facilitation
trade-balancing measure
transitional safeguard mechanism
transparency
TRIMs
TRIPS

UNCITRAL
UNCTAD
UPOV
Uruguay Round

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X

variable levy
VRA, VER, OMA

 

waiver
Washington Treaty
WCO
WIPO
working party (accession)
working party report (accession)

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zeroing

 

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