The meeting of the Technical Barriers to Trade Committee of the World Trade Organization

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The meeting of the Technical Barriers to Trade Committee of the World Trade Organization (TBT/WTO Committee) took place from 13 to 15 March, 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Prior to this meeting, on March 12, 2024, an informal meeting of the TBT/WTO Committee was held, followed by a session of the Working Group on Transparency and a side event on ePing alert system – WTO’s TBT/SPS Platform.

The meeting of TBT/WTO Committee.

At this TBT/WTO Committee meeting, Member States focused on discussing 15 new trade concerns and 55 previously raised trade concerns related to technical barriers to various commodity products such as Halah food, chemicals, information technology products, etc. Also within the agenda of the meeting, Viet Nam had a bilateral discussion with Japan related to the Cyber Security Law and its implementing documents of Viet Nam.

Delegation of Viet Nam participated in the meeting of the TBT/WTO Committee.

Alongside the Committee meeting, the delegation of Viet Nam had a working session with the International Information Center (ITC) and the WTO Secretariat on the localization project of the WTO’s ePing TBT/SPS Platform between ITC and Vietnam TBT Office, which aims to integrate into the common system to assist Vietnamese businesses and competent authorities to easily exploit TBT/SPS information from other WTO’s Member.

In 2022, ePing was upgraded by the WTO and ITC based on the integration of 03 WTO’s databases. Initiated in 2019 with the support of ITC and the WTO Secretariat, the Vietnamese version of ePing also needs to be supplemented with new content and finalized in order to be integrated into the new ePing platform. The launch of Vietnamese version of ePing will bring many benefits to Vietnamese management agencies, associations and export enterprises, especially small and medium –sized enterprises.

In addition to the side events of the meeting, the Vietnamese delegation participated both in person and virtually in a hybrid session on the Principles for Steel Standards presented by WTO’s Deputy Director General.