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SUMMARY:Presentation of UNCTAD report: Trade Facilitation Enquiry Points - 
 analysis and best practices for operating enquiry points
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DESCRIPTION:Uncertainty around import\, export and transit procedures conti
 nues to raise trade costs\, create delays and limit market access - especi
 ally for smaller firms and informal traders.Under the World Trade Organiza
 tion’s Trade Facilitation Agreement\, enquiry points are designed to clo
 se this information gap. Today\, three out of four WTO members have formal
 ly established one.But how well do they work in practice?Join us for the p
 resentation of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s new report\, “Trade
  Facilitation Enquiry Points: Analysis and Best Practices for Operating En
 quiry Points.”The report examines the real-world performance of enquiry 
 points in 2024 through a global mystery-client assessment of 124 national 
 enquiry points.Register onlineWhy this mattersEffective enquiry points are
  not administrative add-ons. They are frontline services that can lower tr
 ade costs\, improve predictability and expand market access - particularly
  for smaller and more vulnerable traders.The assessment outlines practical
  lessons\, best practices and policy recommendations\, including the value
  of developing an Enquiry Point Roadmap to guide countries toward more ope
 rational\, service-oriented and digitally integrated systems.What you’ll
  gain from this sessionEvidence-based insights from UNCTAD’s global eval
 uationPractical recommendations for improving enquiry point performanceExa
 mples of institutional\, procedural and digital arrangements that workA fo
 rward-looking perspective on how enquiry points can evolve using automatio
 n and trade portalhttps://unctad.org/publication/trade-facilitation-enquir
 y-points-analysis-and-best-practices-operating-enquiry-points\n\nView meet
 ing on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/node/51464
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