Tag: World Trade Organisation

Implementation of the development assistance aspects of the cotton-related decisions in the 2004 July package and Paragraph 12 of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration Pursuant to...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Members decided at the 1996 Singapore Ministerial Conference to set up three new working groups on trade and investment, competition policy, and ...

On 30 June, WBG President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo launched The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty, a joint report which sets out...

Reducing trade costs through initiatives such as the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) will go a long way towards helping businesses and consumers in poorer countries reap...

A greater and more sustained effort to deepen the integration of developing countries into the global trading system through lower trade costs and fewer barriers between countries ...

The role of customs in the 20th and 21st centuries has evolved in many respects. With the proliferation of regional trading arrangements (RTAs) whose main objective is to incr...

With the signature of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), countries have committed to creating or maintaining a national trade facilitation committee. Setting up a nationa...

In some respects the end of 2014 brought some light to a quiet year on the trade front. This Trade Brief reviews some of the trade-related developments of the past year at the glob...

The 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 ...

Director-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 ...

The Assembly, 1. RECALLS the Decision on Boosting Intra-African Trade / Continental Free Trade Area taken on 30 January 2012 at its Eighteenth Ordinary Session; 2. TAKES NOTE of ...

Regional African organizations are increasing their involvement in developing the continent’s cotton sector to ensure aid reaches farmers who really need it, and strengthen produ...

Trade facilitation referrs to the simplification, harmonisation, standardisation and modernisation of trade procedures. It encompasses policies designed to reduce trade transaction...

“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...

tralac hosted its 2014 Annual Conference, a multi-stakeholder forum for trade-related developments for eastern and southern Africa, at The Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town, South ...

South Africa is not an island, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday, and economic growth and development depends on the extent to which the country is integrated with ...

Three recent trade reports have suggested that with many economies still feeling vulnerable in the wake of the global financial crisis, governments are resorting to trade prot...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told the Trade Negotiations Committee that “it’s time to shift things up a gear” in developing a work programme for the conclusion of the Do...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo reported to the General Council on 14 March 2014 that the chairs of the negotiating groups have completed the first round of consultations on...

tralac was invited to participate in the Bali Trade and Development Symposium (TDS) organised by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the Cent...