In the globalized marketplace following the creation of the World trade Organization ( WTO), a key challenge facing developing countries is a lack of national capacity to overcome technical  barrier to trade (TBT) and to comply with the requirement s of WTO agreements on TBT and  SPS,  which are now basic prerequisites  for market access embedded in the global  trading system. As a founder member of WTO, during the Uruguay Round Bangladesh also signed these two important agreements, namely, the agreements on TBT and  SPS having serious implications in trade in this Post-MFA era. Confidence building among buyers through reliable and valid testing, conformity assessments considered as the one of the major technical barriers to trade. With a view to meeting the challenges facing relating TBT & SPS, Bangladesh is indeed in urgent need of development of countrywide conformity assessment infrastructure for standards, quality, accreditation, metrology, testing, calibration, inspection and access to the higher education in measurement sciences. Developing technical capacity in calibration (both in physical and chemical) service areas with demonstration of technical competency  as per say ISO/IEC 17025 has been assumed as an immediate requirements for Bangladesh in order to be an able partner in the global trade regime.

To address the demand for calibrations in the chemical measurements and sciences, to increase the confidence among the buyers in the testing and measurement practices in the country, the overall project objective is to contribute to growth of industrialization and reduction of  poverty via supporting trade through providing calibration as well as conformity assessment infrastructure support service at the backward linkage for the development, strengthening and diversification of production and export base of Bangladesh. Thus this project activities would help developing infrastructure in the country so as to help overcoming the Technical Barrier to Trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary (SPS) challenges in trading under WTO regime.