This, together with further evidence that the bulk of SPS measures (94 per cent according to WTO 2012) affect primarily the agricultural sector while a large number of NTMs apply to apparel (Andriamananjara et al. First, there is a general presumption that NTMs are targeted at LDCs. This is, however, not borne out by the data. Focusing on SPS measures, we note from Figure 7.14 that there were 11 cases where these measures were applied bilaterally on LDCs, over and above the 1,934 MFN-type measures as of August 2013.