WTO registers member countries’ import licensing procedures

At a meeting of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Committee on Import Licensing Procedures on April 8, 2022 members reviewed 69 notifications, discussed several specific trade concerns about import licensing regimes.

Members of the WTO are required to notify their import licensing regulations and changes to these regulations within 60 days of publication.

Since the last Committee meeting in October 2021, the WTO Secretariat had received a total of 71 notifications under various provisions of the Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures.