Lesson 5: Considerations During the Process

Topic 1: World Trade Organization Principles

In this topic, you’ll learn about principles of the World Trade Organization and the SPS Agreement that directly affect market access, and see examples of how those principles could affect market access decisions.

Objective:

  • Identify principles of the World Trade Organization and the SPS Agreement that most directly affect rulemaking, explain briefly their importance for free and fair trade, and discuss how they affect market access decisions

You might have completed Module 1 of this training, in which the principles of the SPS Agreement were discussed in detail.

In the presentation below, click on each box to learn about how the SPS principles apply to rulemaking and the market access process. Additionally, take some time to review the concepts as they were previously discussed in Module 1.

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In this topic, you learned about principles of the World Trade Organization and the SPS Agreement that directly affect rulemaking, and saw examples of how those principles could affect market access decisions.

To continue, select Topic 2 from the Topics menu above or click here.