Glossary
A guide to “WTO speak”. When you click on a term, an explanation will appear.
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- SACU
- safeguard measures
- sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS)
- schedule
- schedule of concessions
- sensitive products
- Singapore issues
- special and differential treatment (S&D, SDT)
- special products (SP)
- special safeguard
- special safeguard mechanism (SSM)
- special sessions
- specific commitments
- specific tariff
- square brackets
- subsidy
- swing
- tariff binding
- tariff escalation
- tariff line (TL in the tables)
- tariff peaks
- tariff quota
- tariff rate quota (TRQ)
- tariffication
- tariffs
- TBT
- Territorial waters
- tiered formula
- TMB
- TNC
- TPRB, TPRM
- trade-balancing measure
- trade facilitation
- transitional safeguard mechanism
- transparency
- Transparency Mechanism for RTAs
- transparent
- TRIMs
- TRIPS
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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).