A theme running through the three-day event will be the significant contribution that implementation of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement can make to the objective of reducing trade costs.

The Global Review will see the launch of the joint OECD-WTO flagship publication “Aid for Trade at a Glance”, published this year in collaboration with the Enhanced Integrated Framework, the International Trade Centre, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank Group, and the World Economic Forum. The publication looks at how further, concerted action to reduce trade costs would help contribute to the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda.  

Over the course of the three days, 17 high-level plenary sessions and 28 side events organized by WTO members and other Aid-for-Trade partners will  be held. The full programme is available here.