UNCTAD, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the World Bank are forming a partnership called the Transparency in Trade (TNT) Initiative.
This aims to facilitate collection of tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTM) and other trade data, harmonization of NTMs, and provide free and open access the data collected.
Key elements include open access to a series of trade-related tools and underlying databases.
These are: