| Notes |
“An integrated global economy,
with a strong and dynamic
multilateral trading system,
supported by international
standards, is a better world for
everyone.”
Alan Wolff, Deputy Director General,
World Trade Organization
6 – ISO and the UN ISO and the UN – 7
The World Trade Organization’s (WTO)
Agreement on Technical Barriers to
Trade (TBT) recognizes the key role
that international standards can play
in regulatory harmonization and trade
facilitation and instructs its members
to use them as a basis for their national
technical regulations and conformity
assessment procedures. This means
that policy makers can have confidence
when using ISO standards to support
their policy initiatives that they are
fulfilling their WTO obligations and not
creating any technical barriers to trade |