TY - BOOK AU - Epps,Tracey AU - Trebilcock,M J TI - Research handbook on the WTO and technical barriers to trade T2 - Research handbooks on the WTO SN - 9781783470341 AV - K4610 .R468 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar KW - World Trade Organization KW - Organisation mondiale du commerce KW - rero KW - Non-tariff trade barriers KW - Law and legislation KW - commerce international N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Robert Howse --; The TBT agreement in context; Arkady Kudryavstev --; Conformity assessment procedures; Arthur E. Appleton --; Transparency obligations under the TBT agreement; Denise Prévost --; Standard of review in TBT cases; Michael M. Dru --; Moving out of the shadows : bringing transparency to standards and regulations in the WTO's TBT Committee; Petros C. Mavroidis and Erik N. Wijkström --; International standards; Markus Wagner --; Mutual recognition agreements and equivalence agreements; Helen Churchman --; The limit of PTAs : WTO legal restrictions on the use of WTO-plus technical regulations in PTAs; Joel P. Trachtman --; The TBT agreement and developing countries; Graham Mayeda --; Contemporary problems of climate change and the TBT agreement : moving beyond eco-labelling; Michael Cardwell and Fiona Smith --; The REACH regulation and the TBT agreement : the role of the TBT Committee in regulatory processes; Lukasz Gruszczynski --; Consumer information, consumer preferences and product labels under the TBT agreement; Tania Voon, Andrew Mitchell and Catherine Gascoigne --; The TBT agreement and private standards; Alessandra Acuri --; Technological barriers to trade in information and communication technologies; Branislav Hazucha --; Conclusion; Tracey Epps ER -