The World Trade Organization represents the common institutional framework to carry on the commercial relations among its members on the basis of the accepted international principles endorsed by agreements for standardization and certification, using of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, taxes and duties, rights of the intelectual property, etc. It has become one of the most important international organizations with an economic profile where the most urgent problems in the commerce field are solved. Most of the advantages offered by the WTO are due to the fact that the Agreement concerning the technical barriers to trade and the Agreement concerning the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures are consistently and adequately applied.
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