Market access for goods
Market access for goods in the WTO means the conditions, tariff and non-tariff measures, agreed by members for the entry of specific goods into their markets. Tariff commitments for goods are set out in each member's schedules of concessions on goods. The schedules represent commitments not to apply tariffs above the listed rates — these rates are “bound”. Non-tariff measures are dealt with under specific WTO agreements (see list below). WTO Members seek to continually improve market access through the regular WTO work programme and through negotiations such as those launched at the Doha Ministerial Conference in November 2001.
See also:
> Non-agricultural market
access negotiations
> Negotiations, implementation and development: the Doha agenda
> Hong
Kong Ministerial Declaration
Derestriction of bilateral negotiating material from earlier GATT Rounds of negotiations
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Introduction
Information
on market access for goods in the WTO
Links to market access and tariff information in the WTO
guide “Understanding the WTO”
Includes: Tariff; Bindings; Agriculture;
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The mandate
Consult or download the Marrakesh Protocol
Summary
of the legal texts of the GATT
A technical summary
Browse or download the text of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1947) from the legal texts gateway
Find decisions of WTO bodies concerning the
GATT in the Analytical Index — Guide to WTO Law
and Practice
The Doha negotiating mandate
Section on market access in the 2001 Doha Ministerial Declaration
Consult the goods
schedules for WTO members and new
members
Hong
Kong Ministerial Declaration
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Committee on Market Access
The CMA has a broad mandate, covering all market access issues that are not dealt by any other WTO body. It reports to the Council for Trade in Goods (CTG). The chair is .
Full details
Market access on specific subjects is dealt withdirectly under the relevant gateways
- Agriculture
- Anti-dumping
- Balance of payments
- Customs valuation
- Import licensing
- Information technology agreement
- Rules of origin
- Safeguards
- Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
- State trading enterprises (working group)
- Subsidies and countervailing measure
- Technical barriers to trade
- Textiles
- Trade facilitation
Quantitative Restrictions Database
