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.

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Almost half of all Asian trade is now South South.

Furthermore, the Commission should secure its mandate on such important issues as integrating trade, environment and development trade in services improvement of trade preferences and identification of obstacles and barriers to trade.

Trade facilitation was now being negotiated at the World Trade Organization, and UNCTAD had been asked to collaborate in that regard.

(c) Strengthening trade efficiency (Trade Points)

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UNCTAD supports the third round of negotiations in the context of the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP), launched at UNCTAD XI, in which 14 African countries are participating.

Collaboration in the area of trade efficiency was facilitated by the initial location of UNCTAD s Trade Point Development Centre (UNTPDC) in Bangkok.

There was a need to improve African intraregional trade, and also South South trade, in which Asia already played a major role.

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

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If a Trade Point is operational in a country, the degree to which that Trade Point offers trade facilitation services will be an indicator of the current possibilities for full electronic trading in that country.

The degree to which traders are able to facilitate trade through effective trading systems and traders perceptions of electronic commerce will be assessed by including the following points in the questionnaire awareness of Trade Points use of Trade Points or similar electronic trading systems level of computer literacy and preparedness to make use of electronic trading and access to electronic trading and level of trade facilitation by electronic means.

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Participants challenged the focus of many Governments on revitalizing the Doha trade negotiations.

Determining who the trading partners are by country is important in analysing whether trade efficiency is higher between certain trading partners.

trade and investment trade and competition policy.

Similarly, South South trade was an important aspect of the new trade geography, and a more comprehensive Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) could help to expand it.

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UNCTAD apos s new mandate was in response to emerging transport and trade patterns indicating increased regional trade.

Priority three International trade and trade facilitation

International trade policies and multilateral trade negotiations

RTAs and South South trade cooperation

30. The TRAINFORTRADE activities in Africa are centred on trade with the European single market countries, commodities trading (including risk management) and national trade policies.

For the period 2000 2003, trade in services represented 16 per cent of the total trade of developing countries, expanding at the same pace as their trade in goods.

Customs and related trade procedures require streamlining and simplification to enhance trade efficiency and to reap the potential benefits of trade accords.

Furthermore, the Fair Trade Commission was pursuing revision of the Fair Trade Act to extend its application.

The next step in UNCTAD s Trade Point strategy then became to move from this pre transactional role of Trade Points to a fully transactional role, which would turn the Trade Point network into the first global instrument for electronic commerce.

(h) Share in international trade.

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

More than 90 per cent of all fisheries trade is in processed form.

it became clear that they could be the basis for a global network of advanced players in the area of trade information and electronic commerce.

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

An assessment of the general trading environment would include an analysis of the current trade situation of that country and the dynamics of trade that are influencing that trade environment.

Trade in more lucrative chilled poultry meat is very small, but growing, and mainly confined to Japan trade in frozen turkey parts is also rising.

Adjustment, support to trade and trade related shocks

The World Trade Organization is now disseminating trade profiles of economies combining trade flows with trade policy information sourced from within the World Trade Organization and other organizations and OECD has developed a prototype on trade indicators (trade plus production, employment, investment, etc.) linking standardized information from various OECD databases to trade data.

Today some 50 per cent of world trade takes place within regional trade agreements.