trade standard

English

Noun

trade standard (plural trade standards)

1. (business, economics, trading) A commonly agreed upon description of an expected quality of a product.
   • 1997, A. Garrido Fernandez, M.J. Fernandez-Diez, M.R. Adams, Table Olives - Production and Processing, page 47:

     In this, the IOOC cooperated with the Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission to develop the Codex standard for table olives, as well as producing its own trade standard, the Unified Quality Standard Applying to Table Olives in International Trade.