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Report shows how UNCTAD's automated customs software has helped over 100 countries collect more customs duties, speed up trade and become more open for business.

UNCTAD is helping developing countries implement the reforms needed to make trade easier and prosperity more inclusive.

With 22 February 2019 marking the second anniversary of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement - and a crucial date in its implementation timetable - new analysis shows what's at stake.

Written by Pamela UGAZ, Economic Affairs OfficerArticle No. 30 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°81 - First Quarter 2019]

Meeting in Nairobi, East African Community ministers pledge to undertake trade facilitation reforms in line with continental and WTO agreements.

National trade facilitation committees can make the dream of seamless African trade a reality, experts tell Addis Ababa forum on easing the flow of goods on the continent.

Competitive transport, logistics and foreign investment are essential to ease intra-African commerce and reap rewards of new deal, meeting hears.

A landmark forum, co-organized by UNCTAD, focuses efforts by African countries seeking ways to ease interregional and international trade.

Working hand in hand with UNCTAD, members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States will build trade facilitation capacity to reduce bureaucratic delays on imports and exports.

The United Kingdom is tripling its funding for UNCTAD's work to help Commonwealth developing countries reap the benefits of a global deal on making trade flow smoothly.