技术性贸易壁垒又称“技术性贸易措施”或“技术壁垒”,是以国家或地区的技术法规、协议、标准和认证体系 (合格评定程序) 等形式出现, 涉及的内容广泛, 含盖科学技术、 卫生、检疫、安全、环保、产品质量和认证等诸多技术性指标体系,运用于国际贸易当中,呈现出灵活多变、 名目繁多的规定
由于这类壁垒大量的以技术面目出现,因此常常会披上合法外衣,成为当前国际贸易中最为隐蔽、最难对付的非关税壁垒
Technical Barriers to Trade based on national or regional technical regulations, protocols, standards and certification (conformity assessment procedures) and other forms, involving wide-ranging, covers science and technology, health, quarantine, security, environmental protection, product quality and certification, and many other technical indicators system, used in international trade, which, showing a flexible, numerous regulations
As such a large number of barriers to technology emerged, so often an appearance of legitimacy, become the most covert international trade, the most formidable non-ta