Trade Facilitation at the ITCNovember 9, TF success story event

Presenting ITC’s integrated TF program

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Improving SMEs Competitiveness for exports

Improving efficiency of cross-border procedures

Enhancing transparency and access to

information

Improving inter-agency coordination

and SME involvement

in PPD

Scheduling commitments

under the WTO TFA

Strengthening SMEs ability

to cross borders

A holistic approach beyond TFA

Facilitating public-private dialogue in trade policy formulation

Collaborating with leading public and private TF agencies

Implementing TFA to promote and deepen regional integration

ITC has already supported 39 countries

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And 5 more are planned until the EoY

Tajikistan Mongolia

Mauritius Benin

Burkina Faso

Cote d'Ivoire

Guinea-Bissau

Mali NigerSenegal

Swaziland

Togo

Nigeria Gabon

Central African Republic TogoCabo Verde

Congo

DRC

Gambia

Chad Zimbabwe

Sierra Leone

Lesotho

Madagascar

Haiti

Jamaica

Nicaragua

Honduras

Dom. Rep

St Lucia

Grenada

Paraguay

Ecuador

Angola

Mozambique

Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau

ITC contributed to the notification and/or ratification of 20+ countries

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Category A notification

Among the 39 countries that ITC supported, 19 have already notified their category A to the WTO•Antigua and Barbuda, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Grenada, Honduras, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Tajikistan

RatificationAnd 4 have ratified the Protocol of Amendment•Mauritius, Nicaragua, Niger and Togo

3 salient features of the ITC Trade facilitation program

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Promoting the business perspective with a dedicated focus on SMEs

Promoting stakeholders collaboration at the national and donors levels

Promoting regional approaches to the implementation of TF reforms

ITC promotes the business perspective in the implementation of the TFA

ITC initiatives build on through quantitate and qualitative analysis of business needs, and SMEs’ in particular

•Over 10,000 business interviewed in ITC Non-Tariff Measures surveys

ITC has involved over 1,500 businesses in the categorization process of developing countries and LDCs

•Reflecting private sector needs from different areas: SMEs, sectorial associations, Chambers of Commerce, logistics service providers

The ITC has given a strong position to the private sector in the 4 Trade Facilitation Committees it has established / strengthened

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The ITC promotes SME-friendly methodologies for TFA implementation

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Authorized Operators

Enquiry points

Electronic payment

Design qualification criteria that can be met by SMEs•Most existing AEO schemes automatically exclude smaller businesses

Build capacity of SME to apply to the AO schemes•Through dedicated awareness raising and training events

Ensure services beyond capital/port city and in local languages•Implementation of EP at border posts (including free terminals connected to the trade facilitation portal)•EP Service in Swahili, not just English, at border posts in Tanzania

Identify and implement payment methods which SMEs are more likely to use•E.g. mobile money in Zimbabwe

ITC promotes regional approaches to the implementation of the TFA

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On-going initiatives to promote a coordinated approach to trade facilitation reforms in regional economic communities

Africa LAC Asia-Pacific Other

CAUCA

SICA

OECS

CARICOM

UEMOA

CEMAC

CEAAC

COMESA

CEDEAO

PIFS

MTEC

ASEAN

CEFTA

Identifying community level intervention based on measures commonly categorized in C in UEMOA

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Thank you !

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