Challenges for India in the WTO Regime

After an introduction to WTO agreements impacting trade on a global scale, the article is analyzing the implications for India, focusing in the first part on the Indian regime of technical regulation, including good regulatory practice, adoption of international standards, and conformity assessment, and pinpointing to where technical regulation needs enhancement to facilitate a more flexible approach to regulation. In the second part, it discusses how voluntary certification initiatives can fill gaps in areas where regulation does not yet exist but where there is market demand. The article concludes with a recommendation to evaluate technical regulation, standardization, and conformity assessment activities to enable India to play a role in the world appropriate to its growing economic power.