World Trade Organization – Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility

News

• Celebrating the Success of the Ghana National Single Window

  15.05.2017

  High-level delegates of the international and local trade development community gathered in Accra to consider the progress made in implementing the Ghana National Single Window (GNSW).

• UNESCAP Published a Handbook on Indicators for Trade Facilitation

  08.05.2017

  The handbook aims at providing a comprehensive source of information on publicly available cross-country databases and indicators relevant to trade facilitation.

• WTO Members discuss trade facilitation provisions in RTAs

  12.04.2017

  WTO Members discussed the relationship between trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) at the 3-4 April meeting of the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements.

• Advanced course ends for chairs of National Committees on Trade Facilitation

  31.03.2017

  An Advanced course for chairs of National Committees on Trade Facilitation took place from 20 March to 29 March at the WTO to help prepare the participants for the implementation of the TFA.

• WTO Members welcome entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement

  28.02.2017

  WTO Members hailed the entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) as a historic achievement at a meeting of the General Council on 27 February.

• Now that the Trade Facilitation Agreement has entered into force...

  24.02.2017

  By Anabel González, Senior Director of the World Bank Group Global Practice on Trade and Competitiveness.

• EU welcomes entry into force of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

  23.02.2017

  European Commission press release

• The Trade Facilitation Agreement enters into force

  22.02.2017

  A major milestone for the global trading system was reached on 22 February 2017 when the first multilateral deal concluded in the 21 year history of the World Trade Organization entered into force.

• Advanced course ends for chairs of National Committees on Trade Facilitation

  10.02.2017

  An Advanced Course for the chairs of National Committees on Trade Facilitation took place from 30 January to 10 February at the WTO headquarters to help prepare the participants for the implementation of the TFA.

• Nepal ratifies the Trade Facilitation Agreement

  24.01.2017

  Only two more ratifications from members are needed to bring the TFA into force.

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