Spheres:
CITLP team consults and gives practical recommendations based on the analysis of national legislation and international best practices in compliance with international commitments and obligations in the following areas:
trade in goods:
basic WTO principles, schedules of concession, freedom of transit, free-trade areas, customs unions;  
trade in services:
basic WTO provisions, economic integration, domestic regulation, horizontal requirements, specific (sectoral) commitments, monopolies and exclusive service suppliers, payments and transfers, essential commitments on rules;
customs tariff regulation:
binding of tariffs, tariff rate quotas;
non-tariff regulation:
quotas, import restrictions, import licensing, permitting system;
customs formalities:
rules of origin, fees and formalities connected with importation and exportation, customs valuation;
export policies:
export restrictions, export duties, export licensing;
trade remedies: antidumping, countervailing and safeguard measures:
definitions and criteria of dumping, subsidy and emergency situation, investigation procedures, injury, evidence, causality, price undertaking, imposition and collection of antidumping, safeguard and countervailing duties, retroactivity;
industrial subsidies:
definition, specific subsidies, prohibited subsidies, WTO notification obligations;
agricultural policies:
market access, WTO domestic and export support commitments, notification obligations;
technical barriers to trade:
national technical regulation system, technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures, certification, declaration of conformity, accreditation, notification obligations;
sanitary and phytosanitary measures:
veterinary, phytosanitary and food safety requirements, control measures, risk assessment, scientific justification, harmonization with international standards and practices, regionalization, disease-or pest- free areas, inspection, sampling and testing methods, transparency, notification, appropriate level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection, inspection procedures, notification obligations; 
rade-related investment measures:
local content requirements, export performance requirements, import substitution policies;
state-trading enterprises:
state monopolies, state-enterprises (state-controlled enterprises, state-invested enterprises or private enterprises) with special or exclusive preferences in trade;
special economic zones:
rules of origin, criteria for sufficient processing of goods, taxation and customs rules;
transit:
non-discrimination of transit;
government procurement:
rules of procurement, requirements to potential suppliers, procurement methods, local content requirements, etc.
intellectual property rights:
intellectual property conventions, basic WTO principles, exhaustion of rights (parallel import), copyright and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits, protection of undisclosed information, control of anti-competitive practices in contractual licenses, enforcement;
transparency:
transparency provisions in the WTO agreements,
WTO trade facilitation agreement etc:
transparency provisions, fees and charges imposed on or in connection with importation and exportation and penalties, release and clearance of goods, border agency cooperation, movement of goods intended for import under customs control, formalities connected with importation, exportation and transit, freedom of transit, customs cooperation, assistance and support for capacity building;