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Trade Facilitation

Long waiting times at borders, inappropriate fees, cumbersome formalities, and inadequate or unclear rules and regulations, can all become serious obstacles to trade, and as a consequence adversely affect investment, employment and trade-led development.

UNCTAD assists developing countries in identifying their particular trade and transport facilitation needs and priorities, and helps them program the implementation of specific trade and transport facilitation measures.

UNCTAD organizes workshops and seminars at the regional and national levels, publishes relevant information and training material, and provides technical assistance through numerous projects.

News

17 May 2017Ghana makes positive strides towards the implementation of Trade Facilitation Agreement

Implementation of trade facilitation reforms, including in areas like the single window is key for strengthening regional integration in Africa and is in itself an inescapable must-have for the continent's efforts to boost intra-African trade, increase productive capacities and structural transformation for sustainable development.

22 February 2017Major global agreement comes into force making trade cheaper, easier and faster

Members of the World Trade Organization, supported by UNCTAD, commit to streamlining procedures that will significantly increase international trade, reduce corruption and boost development.

24 January 2017"Make trade facilitation a reality" - Officials meet at the first UNCTAD-hosted forum to prepare for new global trade facilitation agreement

With a major global agreement on making international trade "faster, easier and cheaper" due to take effect in the early weeks of 2017, more than 300 officials from some 70 countries who are charged with making it work gathered for the first time at an UNCTAD-organized forum in Geneva on 23 January.

23 January 2017WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement entry into force – What next?

The entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement is imminent. Only three more ratifications are needed. For developing countries that have ratified or will ratify the Agreement the entry into force results in important obligations.

17 January 2017New Multilingual Online Repository for National Trade Facilitation Committees Launched

With the imminent entry into force of the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement, UNCTAD launches the new multilingual version of the UN Online Repository for National Trade Facilitation bodies.

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Meetings and Events

Start Date	Title	Location	Country
25-27 Apr 2017	Module 1: Operationalization of Benin’s Trade Facilitation Committee and implementation of international standards and recommendations for Trade Facilitation	Cotonou	Benin
09-12 May 2017	Understanding International Standards and Recommendations for Trade Facilitation in Cameroon – UNCTAD Empowerment Programme for National Trade Facilitation Committees	Douala	Cameroon
15-18 May 2017	Understanding International Standards and Recommendations for Trade Facilitation in Gabon – UNCTAD Empowerment Programme for National Trade Facilitation Committees	Libreville	Gabon
22-24 May 2017	Workshop on the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and the role of the Mali’s Trade Facilitation Committee	Bamako	Mali
13-16 Jun 2017	Implementation Plan of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement	Grand-Bassam	Côte d’Ivoire
13-14 Jun 2017	Trade Facilitation National Needs Assessment Workshop for Mongolia	Ulaan Baatar	Mongolia
21-23 Jun 2017	Module 2: Measuring and Implementing Trade Facilitation in Benin	Cotonou	Benin
21-23 Jun 2017	Implementation Plan of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement	Dakar	Senegal
05-07 Jul 2017	Measuring and Implementing Trade Facilitation in Liberia	Monrovia	Liberia
17-21 Jul 2017	Measuring and Implementing Trade Facilitation in São Tomé e Príncipe	São Tomé	Sao Tome and Principe

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Publications

Technical Note: Next steps upon the entry into force of the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TN/TF/24)

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