COVID-19 Trade Facilitation Repository

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This COVID 19 Trade Facilitation Repository aims to facilitate access to initiatives, guidelines, case studies, and other information that was developed by various partner organizations and associations to help maintain the flow of safe cross border trade during the COVID 19 pandemic. 

*Disclaimer: The tool is for purely informative purposes and does not intend to be comprehensive and the organizations participating in the initiative do not purport to advocate or promote any particular course of action, nor shall they be held responsible for any loss or damage caused by errors, omissions, misprints or misinterpretation of the contents hereof.

Organization Description Area of work Focal Point View
International Trade Centre

Assessing the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global businesses (insights to be captured in SME Competitiveness Report 2020 on Covid-19 impact)

Website smecompetitiveness@intracen.org View
International Trade Centre

Temporary trade measures enacted by government authorities in relation to COVID-19 pandemic

Website marketanalysis@intracen.org View
International Chamber of Commerce

Contains trusted advice for businesses, governments and chambers of commerce on COVID-19 response.

Website Damien.BRUCKARD@iccwbo.org View
Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation

The Alliance webpage houses all the latest resources on COVID-19 and trade facilitation.

Website candice.white@weforum.org View
World Economic Forum

This platform creates a space to connect stakeholders to projects, such as the project on COVID-19 impact on manufacturing and supply chains and the project on pandemic supply chains.

Project healthsecurity@weforum.org View
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

News, Analysis and Resources. UNCTAD is monitoring the effects of the global pandemic on manufacturing, trade, foreign direct investment and economic growth.

Case Studies tc@unctad.org View
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

There is a need to keep ships moving, ports open and crossborder trade flowing, while ensuring that border agencies can safely undertake all necessary controls.
Facilitating trade and the transport of goods has become more important than ever, to avoid logistics obstacles that lead to shortages of necessary supplies.
The concrete measures proposed in this policy brief help to facilitate transport and trade and to protect the population from COVID-19.

Article/Press Release jan.hoffmann@un.org View
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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.

Project unctad-tf@un.org View
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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. In countries that have national trade portals, such information would naturally feature on these portals under a special section of the web site.

Project unctad-tf@un.org
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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. UNCTAD provides a one-week regional training course for transit coordinators focusing on concrete collaboration mechanisms that are particularly important in times of crisis such as COVID-19, with view to coordinating interventions and trade restrictions between regional trading partners.

Project unctad-tf@un.org