Guinean Agency for Employment Promotion (AGUIPE).

The China Customs Agency classifies this type of trade as processing trade.

Mr. Yu Hua, Deputy Director General, China Investment Promotion Agency, Beijing, China

The representative of the International Trade Centre (ITC) said that its mandate was primarily trade promotion and business development.

European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries have been granted participation in the agency.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

Yet, except for Costa Rica s foreign investment promotion agency, CINDE, modeled after the IDA Ireland, none of Latin America s FDI promotion agencies have succeeded in adopting best practices.

It was also reported that UNCTAD had carried out an assessment of the investment promotion capacity of the national investment promotion agency (Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement).

With respect to the expansion of international trade and the promotion of olive products

Promotion of wider participation in international trade law conventions and use of model laws

In fact, several specific trade facilitation measures, including those related to transit trade and coordination at border crossings, are often included in the trade promotion agendas of regional organizations.

The following United Nations specialized agencies were represented International Atomic Energy Agency and World Trade Organization.

It had developed a number of tools for investors and Governments aimed at helping trade promotion.

Work has started to define priorities for establishing institutions needed for private sector development, including an investment promotion agency (a priority).

Topics such as trade capacity building, innovation, technology upgrading, investment promotion and SME development would be covered.

The Agency should also maintain a balance between verification activities and promotion of the peaceful applications of nuclear energy, including technical assistance.

For the promotion of intra African trade, it organized an expert group meeting in March 2005 to discuss constraints on intraregional trade and measures for addressing them.

International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO (ITC). ITC has a South South trade promotion programme centred on bringing buyers and sellers together at well prepared regional and interregional conferences.

To this end, in addition to its taxation, finance, and trade facilitation policies, it should establish trade promotion mechanisms in the world s major export markets, so that firms can build comprehensive networks of international trade service platforms and trade cooperation zones overseas.

For the protection of the environment, the promotion of international trade, we can do nothing without effective action together.

Thailand has always attached great importance to the work of UNCTAD as a main agency for trade and development policies.

In the area of inter agency coordination, the United Nations Development Group Office and UNDP are committed to the promotion of greater inter agency harmonization and more effective coordination with the other United Nations agencies in the field.

The council is formed to protect women entrepreneurs' interests in domestic and international trade relations and to assist them in trade and investment promotion and technology transfer in Vietnam and abroad.

(b) Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights parliamentary documentation study entitled Mainstreaming the right to development into international trade law and policy at the World Trade Organization (1).

Various market studies have been prepared, trade fair participation has been facilitated, and training seminars in export promotion have been held.

A massive scaling up of public investments, capacity building, systematic promotion of World Trade Organization compliant trade opportunities, resource mobilization and official development assistance are therefore urgent for low income developing countries.

We welcome, too, the work that the Agency is engaged in with member States to address the issue of illicit nuclear trade.

The Norwegian Space Centre, an agency of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, coordinates and manages the country's involvement in space activities.

UNIDO had an important role to play in areas such as technology transfer and trade promotion through the development of industrial capacities.

This pattern of internationalization is very different from the one which drove earlier experiences, and which involved export expansion and trade promotion.

In 1961, the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore was established as a one stop investment promotion agency to assist foreign firms in their operations in Singapore.

This approach is particularly visible and meaningful in the case of country specific operations, where UNCTAD expertise is customized by the recipients themselves (as in activities regarding investment promotion, trade negotiations or trade facilitation).

The Centre is responsible for the implementation of subprogramme 6, Operational aspects of trade promotion and export development, of programme 10, Trade and development, of the biennial programme plan for the period 2006 2007.

While waiting for the proverbial Godot, Yazid relies among other things on the support of the public cyberparc (National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Tech Parks) .

Prepared by the World Trade Organization (convener). In 2003, the Task Force on International Trade Statistics decided to change its name to Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics to distinguish itself from the inter agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services convened by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The ability to export helped growth, but there was a need to distinguish between export promotion and trade liberalization in a more general sense.

Finally, with respect to point (iii), UNCTAD continues to cooperate with the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI), the Swiss Import Promotion Programme and the International Trade Centre on promoting market access for biodiversity products.

The events were coordinated by the Korea Nuclear Energy Promotion Agency (KONEPA) and included the participation of the French Atomic Forum (FAF) the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as well as public relations and information experts from countries that utilize or plan to utilize nuclear power.

The Review action plan recommended that action be taken to review and update the current investment legislation, to reform land access, to strengthen the local investment promotion agency, to promote good governance and to devise proactive policies dedicated to the promotion of national and regional investment opportunities.

South South cooperation, including the promotion of regional trade, could add new sources of financing and develop new export capacities in the least developed countries.

Another tool was the Market Access Map, a database on market access barriers, developed to enhance transparency and to support international marketing and trade promotion.

In the case of China, OFDI approval procedures have been simplified and the Investment Promotion Agency, established under the Ministry of Commerce, provides support in helping Chinese enterprises to invest abroad.

Reaffirming their conviction that international trade on the basis of equality and mutual benefit is an important element in the promotion of friendly relations among States,

The measures outlined in the areas of financing for development, debt cancellation, trade promotion, investment and other specific areas of development need to be fully implemented.

But, while he has continued his softer tone since the election, he has not even bothered to ask for fast track trade promotion authority, let alone try to pump new life into the Doha Round of global trade talks.