Ten years later, an Indian government officer, Anwar Hussain Shaik has been made the chair of the WTO’s Committee on Technical Barriers on Trade(TBT). He replaced Elisa Maria Olmeda de Alejandro from Mexico.
Aim: To ensure that standards and conformity assessment procedures, and technical regulations are non-discriminatory and do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade.
WTO is a 164 member organisation that formulates rules for global exports and imports.
