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The WTO has objectives such as lowering and elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers in international trade, improvement of trade transparency and predictability, trade facilitation, discouraging of unfair trade practices. For this purpose, the WTO member’s governments apply various trade policy instruments in accordance with WTO rules. The WTO member’s business can greatly benefit from application by government of the WTO instruments that facilitate trade and protect from unfair competition. Moreover, the business itself can directly use some of these instruments for better market access, in particular transparency instruments, or in cooperation with government get support or protection provided in WTO agreements. Thus, this Guide will provide review of the WTO instruments that would be useful for agribusiness in facilitating business development on domestic and foreign agri-food markets. This publication contributes to Output 40102. It is also one of the products of the Regional Initiative on Improving Agrifood Trade and Market Integration in Europe and Central Asia. Based on this guide “How to use the WTO instruments to the interests of agribusiness”, FAO will conduct capacity development trainings to stakeholders in 2018-2019.