Market Access Unit

The Market Access Unit is responsible for the following issues:

• trade in goods, including industrial and agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs, and related regulatory matters
• technical barriers to trade
• trade facilitation, customs technology questions and rules of origin
• general market access questions, including coordination of trade barriers work and implementation of trade agreements
• UK withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), including coordination of the future trade relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom and sectoral liabilities
• trade policy instruments of protection affecting imports, including anti-dumping and countervailing duties, safeguard measures and the Trade Barriers Regulation (TBR) and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)
• dispute settlement of WTO agreements and bilateral trade agreements, excluding settlement of investment disputes
• market access questions concerning Russia
• sectoral trade policy matters (e.g. forests, steel and textiles)
• internet governance
• analysis and reporting tasks and legal tasks relating to trade policy as agreed separately.