Market Access Unit

The Market Access Unit is responsible for the following issues:

• general market access issues, including reconciliation of questions relating to trade barriers and implementation of trade agreements
• trade facilitation, customs related questions and rules of origin
• technical barriers to trade
• trade in goods, including industrial and agricultural products, and related regulatory matters, sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS)
• trade defence instruments, including anti-dumping and anti-subsidies, safeguard measures and the Trade Barriers Regulation (TBR) 
• intellectual property rights
• public procurement
• government support
• sector-specific economic sanctions
• market access issues and advice on trade policy concerning Russia and other Eurasia and Asian countries
• sectoral trade policy questions, including steel
• commercial and economic aspects of technology and internet governance