(ii) World Customs Organization (WCO) The World Customs Organization and Trade Facilitation

The secretariat has continued to cooperate with the World Customs Organization and the Committee on Trade and Environment of the World Trade Organization.

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(iv) World Trade Organization (WTO) WTO Trade Facilitation

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Product World Trade

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World trade in commodities

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(j) Coordination meeting between UNCITRAL, World Trade Organization (WTO), International Trade Centre (ITC), UNIDROIT and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (Geneva, Switzerland 1 June 2004)

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42. World Trade Organization (WTO).

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Observing that the unilateral imposition of coercive laws is incompatible with the rules and orientations of the World Trade Organization, which prohibits the taking of measures likely to impede the freedom of international trade and navigation,

(c) WTC NETWORK

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and their location at the margins of the world apos s trading system, results in significant additional external transportation costs.

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That would require the international organizations, in particular WTO, the World Bank, UNCTAD, the World Customs Organization and the regional commissions to extend coordinated technical assistance to all the landlocked developing countries.

WTO was the proper venue for negotiations on trade.

Box 1 Trade Policy Review Mechanism of the World Trade Organization

The ITC World Trade Net Programme, aimed at facilitating business community participation in the world trading system, currently covers Bangladesh, Cambodia, Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Senegal and Zambia.

Balancing the World s Imbalances

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For example, the WTCA has worked in close cooperation with UNCTAD apos s trade point initiative to establish trade points within world trade centres and to organize cooperative programmes in the fields of trade education and information.

WCO Task Force on Security and Facilitation of the International Trade Supply Chain

Noting that the imposition of arbitrary unilateral laws contradicts the regulations and directions of the World Trade Organization which prohibits the adoption of measures likely to hinder international free trade and shipping

28. World trade in primary commodities has grown more slowly, and makes up a smaller share of total world trade than manufactured products.

Improvements in transport technologies have played a significant part in the growth of world trade.

Lack of access to the sea and remoteness from world markets significantly increase transit transportation expenditures, make it harder for the country to participate in world trade and directly affect the poverty rate in the country.

(b) Trade missions WTCA members work together on an ongoing basis to organize trade missions to different parts of the world

Ms. Nora Neufeld, World Trade Organization

At present, WTC NETWORK links 190 world trade centres worldwide and can be accessed in 140 countries with a local telephone call.

Particular attention is given to developments in Latin American trade and maritime transport in the 2005 edition of the Review of Maritime Transport.

It was crucial to create an efficient trade facilitation system for the landlocked developing countries, whose overseas trade was dependent on the transit transport policies and trade facilitation arrangements of their neighbours, and to make it possible for them to participate actively in the relevant WTO negotiations.

(e) Cooperation with the World Trade Organization

E. Cooperation with the World Trade Organization

(f) Changing trends in world trade law.