World Trade Organization – Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility

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• WTO Members urged to start preparing for entry into force of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  03.03.2016

  WTO Members were urged at the Preparatory Committee on Trade Facilitation (PCTF) to start preparing for entry into force of the TFA.

• Paraguay becomes the 70th WTO Member to ratify the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  01.03.2016

  Paraguay is the 70th WTO Member to ratify the TFA, and the second South American Member to notify its acceptance.

• DG Azevêdo welcomes Côte d’Ivoire’s efforts in trade facilitation

  17.02.2016

  WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo visited Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 16 February as part of his current visit to West Africa.

• Cambodia ratifes the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  12.02.2016

  Cambodia has ratified the TFA, becoming the 8th least-developed country (LDC) to do so and bringing the total no. of ratifications to 69.

• Clubs and the WTO post-Nairobi: What is feasible? What is desirable?

  04.02.2016

  The 2015 Nairobi WTO Ministerial unshackled governments from the deadlocked Doha Development Agenda and opened the door for new issues and new approaches.

• Mali ratifies the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  20.01.2016

  Mali has become the 10th African nation to have ratified the TFA, bringing the total number of ratifications to 68.

• Jamaica ratifies the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  19.01.2016

  Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has confirmed her country’s ratification of the TFA during a meeting with WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo in Kingston on 19 January.

• Seychelles ratifies the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  11.01.2016

  Seychelles has become the 66th WTO Member to ratify the TFA.

• Sri Lanka Customs launches Single Window system

  06.01.2016

  Sri Lanka has been linked up with high tech Single Window programme implemented worldwide to facilitate the export-import process.

• Lesotho and Georgia ratify the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)

  05.01.2016

  These two ratifications bring to 65 the number of WTO Members that have formally accepted the TFA.

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