The Committee of Trade Experts generally met three times a year and was made up of officials from the EFTA countries. Along with the Customs Committee the Committee of Trade Experts was a technical committee concerned with the details of running a free trade area.

Documents concerning standardisation policy in Europe (alongside CEN and CENELEC), electrical equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, other policy trade matters such as the annual review of the "INST" procedure, the internal notification procedure by which the EFTA countries inform each other, in advance, of plan to introduce new technical regulations, or amendments to old ones, which could constitute technical barriers to trade and working party on regional policy which was established in 1983 to study the trade-related aspects of regional policy.