Online course Empowerment Programme for NTFCs: UNCTAD provides an intensive professional program for the Secretariat and the members of National Trade Facilitation Committees (NTFCs) in English, French, Spanish (to be launched) and Portuguese consisting of 9 courses. The main objective is to help them implement, in a coordinated manner, trade facilitation reforms, including the provisions of the Agreement on Trade Facilitation of the World Trade Organization.

The is often a lack of transparency in connection with the introduction of emergency measures relating to trade and transport. This leads to disruption of international trade and supply chains. In close collaboration with the stakeholders of the National Trade Facilitation Committee, UNCTAD offers to undertake desk based rapid scans of the framework of national emergency regulations and with the relevant stakeholders develop a strategy to publish such information in the most transparent manner.

Transit is per definition a multi-country operation, which involves multiple procedures in every country of the transit operation, which leads to complexity. The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement suggests that each country appoints a national transit coordinator to liaise with other countries to facilitate movement under transit and to collaborate to address transit challenges.

With a view to ensuring that trade facilitation policy is coordinated at regional level, UNCTAD offers technical assistance and advisory services to regional and sub-regional bodies to assist with developing policy frameworks and setup Regional and sub-regional Trade Facilitation Committees, that are particularly relevant to coordinate interventions in times of crisis and emergency.

The Trade Facilitation Portal s are a key tool for transparency and provides online step by step descriptions of import, export and transit procedures from the trader's point of view. For traders, it gives a detailed picture of what needs to be done to comply with national regulations. For policymakers, it helps with the identification of all unnecessary redundancies and administrative bottlenecks.

Guidelines to Customs Administrations: The ASYCUDA World (AW) system is well-equipped to assist Customs and cross-border agencies in scaling-up necessary actions to better deal with this pandemic by adopting policies and procedures to prevent, and/or limit transmission of the virus in their respective work environments, while at the same time ensuring the smooth functioning of cross border trade.

to fed airlines and transport professionals with the latest updates, reports and guidance materials, recommendations to passengers and transport professionals, etc.

Issued on an ad-hoc basis by the IATA Cargo Border Management team on topics related to COVID-19 outbreak Customs or Security matters impacting air cargo.

The TACT [& IATA teams worldwide] team has put together a page including the following dashboards:

Airline Air Cargo Operations Status: this section covers over 370 airlines worldwide, to capture the Operational Status, current Cargo Restrictions, Passenger to Cargo (“P2C”) & Cargo in cabin information, as well as major schedule updates

Country Air Cargo Operations Status: this section covers over 200 countries, to capture the current Cargo Restrictions, Cargo in Cabin and other important updates to regulations.

IATA has centralized recent COVID-19 updates and emergency guidelines and other material from relevant bodies (i.e. WHO, ICAO, ACI, IATA) as well as country specifics guidelines.

Guidelines on the transport of specimens of Covid-19 and alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

Due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), the ability to attend or deliver recurrent dangerous goods training is very limited. Many States have issued temporary extensions to existing dangerous goods training qualifications. Find out more in this document listing the States that have issued temporary extensions, together with a link to their website that provides the extension.

Macau, China case study

Malaysia case study

Maldives case study

Mongolia case study

Nepal case study