Services are a fundamental economic activity, with a key role in infrastructure building, competitiveness and trade facilitation.

The background document revealed the difficulties encountered in the post Doha negotiations in agriculture, NAMA, services, trade facilitation and development issues.

The secretariat continued to monitor and analyse developments relating to efficient transport and trade facilitation, including multimodal transport and logistics services.

Facilitation

Forum facilitation

C. Facilitation

Trade facilitation

Trade and transport facilitation and development Trade facilitation and regional integration Private sector expectations from the WTO negotiations on trade facilitation Implementation of trade facilitation measures Conclusions and the way forward

Facilitation of use

The Framework Agreement sets out five core areas that include, in addition to agriculture, market access on non agricultural products, services, development issues and trade facilitation.

D. Facilitation of implementation

Facilitation of partnership building

Facilitation of technical assistance

Facilitation of technical assistance

The Mbeki Facilitation Mission

Director, Compliance and Facilitation

Facilitation of technical assistance

The Mbeki Facilitation Mission

Trade facilitation and logistics

Trade facilitation and regional integration

Implementation of trade facilitation measures

Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation

Trade facilitation was also important.

The July package constituted a framework for the elaboration of more detailed negotiating modalities for agriculture, access to non agricultural markets, services and the facilitation of trade and development.

The Strategic Partnership will also focus on trade and investment facilitation programmes, which will allow for a consistent and profitable flow of goods and services between the two regions.

Trade and transport facilitation and development

Trade and transport facilitation and development

Mr. David Wakeford, Trade Facilitation Alliance

The Group of 77 highlighted the increasing importance of international transport services and trade facilitation for the competitiveness of developing countries, particularly in the context of the new geography of trade .

Technical assistance should be provided to landlocked developing countries on a priority basis as their trade facilitation needs will depend mainly on transit services and the policies of their transit neighbors.

Trade facilitation as an engine for development

Status of WTO negotiations on trade facilitation

Introduction to implementation issues in trade facilitation

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Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development

Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development

Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development

One of those issues was trade facilitation.

Priority three International trade and trade facilitation

(a) Providing substantive and secretariat services to the Commission, the Committee on Managing Globalization and the Subcommittee on Transport Infrastructure and Facilitation and Tourism, on issues relevant to transport and tourism development

Services account for a growing share of GDP and employment and play a key role not only in infrastructure building, competitiveness and trade facilitation, but also in poverty reduction and gender equality.

UNCTAD coordinated its activities in the field of trade and transport facilitation with other international organizations through the Global Facilitation Partnership (GFP).

The secretariat was also providing technical assistance to LDCs on identifying needs and priorities for trade facilitation and establishing trade facilitation platforms.

Mr. Omar E. Odarda, Trade Facilitation Alliance, Switzerland

(iv) World Trade Organization (WTO) WTO Trade Facilitation