Technical assistance and capacity building

This page aims to provide WTO members with an overview of technical assistance and capacity building activities in the area of trade facilitation.

 

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I. Technical assistance and capacity building provided by the WTO

Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility

The Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility, launched in July 2014, will help developing and least-developed countries reap the benefits of the WTO’s new Trade Facilitation Agreement, which was agreed at the Bali Ministerial Conference in December 2013. The Facility became operational when the Trade Facilitation Protocol was adopted by WTO members on 27 November 2014.

Needs assessments

Multimedia presentation on needs assessment

WTO Trade Facilitation National Needs Assessment 2012-2015

• Project description
• Notification form
• WTO Trade Facilitation Needs Assessment Guide
• Self Assessment Guide — Correlation Table

Preparation/administration

• Model agenda
• Model letter of invitation
• Instructions for coordinators/secretary
• Participant sign-in sheets
• Participant evaluations

Slideshow presentations

• The Trade Facilitation Agreement
• Trade facilitation self-assessment: Guide and process
• Final presentation of results template

Working group and final result materials

• Summary of Results — Excel Worksheet
• Working Group charts
• Working Group 1
• Working Group 2
• Working Group 3
• Working Group assigned proposals
• Consolidated charts
• Final summary report form

WTO Program for National Self-Assessments of Trade Facilitation Needs and Priorities 2007-2010

Presentations

• Delegate presentations on results of completed needs assessments
• Presentations from WTO workshops and informal sessions

Case studies

• Case studies and reports on trade facilitation implementation

 

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II. Donors and assistance programmes

• Australia
• Canada
• European Union
• EU — Assistance Projects
• Japan
• United States

 

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III. Trade facilitation information and activities provided by other International Organizations   

Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade — ARTNeT

• Cost and Benefits of Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures under Negotiations at the WTO: An Exploratory Survey
   

Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade — GFPTT

• Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade
• GFPTT — WTO Negotiations on Facilitation
• GFPTT — Explanatory Notes
    

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — OECD

Development Assistance Committee (DAC):
OECD Development Assistance Committee

Trade Committee:
Trade Facilitation

OECD Conference on Trade Facilitation entitled “Negotiating on Trade Facilitation: Implications for Developing Countries”
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18-19 October 2005
  

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development — UNCTAD

• UNCTAD main website
• Transport and Trade Logistics
• UNCTAD's Trade Facilitation website
• Technical Notes on Trade Facilitation
• Transport Newsletter (contains updated news related to Trade Facilitation issues and projects)
• UNCTAD's Technical Cooperation Portal (by Thematic Cluster):
• UNCTAD's ASYCUDA (A computerised system for processing customs documentation)
• Online Repository on Trade Facilitation Bodies around the world
• Review of Maritime Transport 2013

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe — UNECE

• United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)
     — UN/CEFACT List of Trade Facilitation Recommendations
• United Nations electronic Trade Documents (UNeDocs)
• UNECE's trade development programme
• Workshops
• UNECE-UNESCAP Capacity building workshop on trade facilitation implementation for Asia and the Pacific Region on 17-18 March 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  

World Customs Organization — WCO

• Trade facilitation
• The 4 WCO packages
• Economic Competitiveness Package
• Organizational Development Package
• Preparation for the WTO Trade Facilitation Negotiations
• Revised Kyoto Convention
• Time Release Study
• WCO Data Model
• Coordinated Border Management
• Single Window Guidelines
• Globally Networked Customs
• WCO Customs Risk Management Compendium
• WCO Learning and Professionalism Programmes 
• WCO Self-Assessment Checklist — TN/TF/W/16
    

World Bank

• World Bank Negotiation Support Guide
• World Bank Trade Facilitation Training
• Needs and Priorites/Implementation Costs and Challenges Study (Interm Report) — Slide Presentation made at NGTF meeting July 26, 2006