International trade

International trade

The buying and selling of goods, services and capital across international borders or territories.

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enquiry point

Economy; International trade

an official or office in a member government designated to deal with enquiries from other WTO members and the public on a subject such as technical barriers to trade or sanitary/phytosanitary ...

Independent entity

Economy; International trade

Constituted jointly by the International Federation of Inspection Agencies (IFIA), representing preshipment inspection agencies, and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), representing ...

In sanitary-phytosanitary measures (SPS): governments recognizing other countries' measures as acceptable even if they are different from their own, so long as an equivalent level of protection is ...

ex ante

Economy; International trade

Before a measure is applied.

ex post

Economy; International trade

After a measure is applied.

exhaustion

Economy; International trade

In intellectual property protection, the principle that once a product has been sold on a market, the intellectual property owner no longer has any rights over it. (A debate among WTO member ...

export competition

Economy; International trade

In Doha Round agriculture: export subsidies and the parallel issues, which could provide loopholes for governments' export subsidies - export finance (credit, guarantees and insurance), exporting ...