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In respect with the guiding principle of this chronicle to estimate connections between liberalization of international trade and non-trade values, this new edition illustrates new conflicts of values. This almost double year of awards of the Dispute Settlement Body is characterized by the focus put on the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement at the heart of several disputes: United States – Clove Cigarettes, United States – Cool, United States – Tuna II. Some and new lightings on several key points of this agreement are brought by the trade jurisdiction, the interpretations of which turn out more or less favorable to the protection of « legitimate objectives », mainly entended as non trade values. At the same time, the usual questioning about the possible using of non trade values at some economic interests still remains; indeed, suspicions of protectionism are coming back, from an edition to another (see China – Raw Materials). Although reprehensible, these national protectionisms are understandable whenever they are justified by the need to save some of a national economic activity.