ITA Seeks Comments to Inform Foreign Trade Barriers Review, Requests to Participate in 'Summit' on Topic

The International Trade Administration (ITA) is seeking comments from U.S. stakeholders on standards, conformity assessment, and regulatory trends and challenges in foreign markets and the assistance they require from ITA to address “standards-related trade barriers and trends” to capture export opportunities, the ITA said. The agency will use the input in reviewing how to enhance services and programs to best meet stakeholders’ needs in the foreign standards area. The ITA will hold an "internal summit" on how to improve those services and programs March 6-7, 2018, and is collecting private-sector requests for “limited opportunities” to participate in summit portions, the agency said. Requests to participate in the summit and comments to inform the trade barriers review must be sent by the end of Dec. 17.