The following is excerpted from a 29 October 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.
WTO members, meeting as the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee on 29–31 October 2013, examined in some detail the latest thinking on a set of issues that many of them see as a major obstacle to trade — how to make it easier for products to be certified as meeting required standards, and how special efforts can be made for developing countries.
This item is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news13_e/tbt_29oct13_e.htm