Under the ITC Trade Facilitation programme for 2021, ITC will i) operationalize a Trade Information Desk at Dan-Issa border (Niger/ Nigeria) and provide assistance to small-scale traders in complying with border formalities; ii) Enhance access to information on trade formalities in Burkina Faso through the official launch and promotion of a National Trade Facilitation Portal; iii) Pilot the newly introduced advance ruling mechanism in Niger to ensure its effectiveness; iv) develop and share recommendations towards the simplification of cross-border formalities with NTFCs in beneficiary countries; v) Develop, publish and disseminate a publication on integrated risk management; vi) develop a NTFC monitoring tool blueprint; and vii) organize a donors’ conference in selected West African beneficiary countries to present the project proposals developed by NTFC to request technical assistance for the implementation of category C measures
Contact Point(s)
Name
Mohammad Saeed
Email
saeed [at] intracen.org
Name
Eleonora Salluzzi
Email
esalluzzi [at] intracen.org
Informations extraites des notifications de l'article 22
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Reducing Barriers to Regional Trade in Food in West Africa: Aims to make it easier and less costly to trade food within the ECOWAS sub region by influencing governments to eliminate practices (bureaucratic and informal) such as roadblocks and other controls that increase the cost of trade; and to harmonize trade policies.
