Tag: Trade facilitation
Day 2 of Public Forum looks at why trade matters to Africa
03 Oct 14 NewsThe plenary session of the second day of the WTO Public Forum offered trade facilitation, regional integration and development of small and medium-sized enterprises as some of the ...
Azevêdo highlights trade role in realizing Africa’s “sheer potential”
03 Oct 14 NewsDirector-General Roberto Azevêdo, opening the WTO Public Forum’s second plenary session “Why Trade Matters to Africa” on 2 October, said that trade has an important role in ...
Status of Integration in Africa (SIA V)
30 Jun 14 NewsThe fifth edition of the Status of Integration in Africa report (SIA V) contains information on the implementation process of the integration agenda by the Regional Economic Commun...
The Bali WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Implications for southern Africa
25 Jun 14 PublicationsTrade facilitation referrs to the simplification, harmonisation, standardisation and modernisation of trade procedures. It encompasses policies designed to reduce trade transaction...
Top 10 economies best set up for trade
24 Apr 14 News“We’re back in business” – these are the words of Roberto Azevêdo, the freshly elected director general of the World Trade Organization, uttered in December 2013. He was r...
Study into the cooperation of border management agencies in Zimbabwe
29 May 13 PublicationsZimbabwe is a landlocked developing country with a population of 14 million, sharing common borders with Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. Zimbabwe has 14 border posts...
Trade capacity building: from Stockholm to Cape Town, March 2012
28 Mar 12 EventThe Swedish National Board of Trade has organized two one-year capacity building programmes during 2011-2012, in the areas of Rules of Origin and Trade Facilitation. The programmes...
Trade Facilitation in the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area
21 Sep 11 PublicationsThe COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite was created in 2006 to assist in the process of harmonising programmes and policies within and between the three Regional Economic Communities of COM...
The World Trade Organisation: an African Perspective, more than a decade later
19 Jan 10 PublicationsThe current Round of trade negotiations is the first ‘Development Round’. Given the challenges of addressing development issues in the context of trade negotiations in the WTO ...