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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.

64. UN ECE has a longstanding record in the preparation of trade facilitation standards and automation of trade transaction procedures.

9. To lower transaction costs in international trade, one needs to consider commercial operations in their entirety.

Over 40 per cent of trade turnover is based on barter transactions.

They had brought with them 100 trade and investment proposals, negotiated commercial deals and identified trade prospects as well as joint venture investment projects.

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(c) Information exchange, joint marketing and trade promotion improve the bargaining position of producers and traders.

Preferences, South South trade, and regional and global trade agreements

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.

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Trade facilitation can reduce the overall cost of international trade transactions through the internationally agreed alignment of key trade and transport procedures and documents.

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(c) Small and medium sized enterprise trade competitiveness the training of operational staff for Trade Points, as well as Trade Point managers and users

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Recently UNCTAD TPDC has been working towards moving Trade Points from the pre transactional to the transactional stage.

His Government had submitted proposals on GATT Articles VIII and X emphasizing the merits of trade facilitation.

TRADP promotes the harmonization of trade regimes, reduces cross border trade and immigration impediments, enhances the exchange of information on trade and investment opportunities and provides training in trade and investment promotion and resource mobilization.

The Forum will provide technical assistance and training to Trade Points. It will coordinate the exchange of information on trading opportunities as well as the facilities offered by international, regional and national institutions in the fields of trade financing, trade promotion, training and technical cooperation.

Recent new generation WTO plus regional trade agreements covered not only trade in goods but also other regulatory areas.

The 13 participants represented Trade Points, experts on EDI, UNCTAD, ITC, and UN ECE.

It was agreed that the scope of distributive trade statistics should include wholesale trade, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

(a) A higher number of transactions or a higher volume of international trade carried out under the regime of UNCITRAL legislative and non legislative texts.

(a) Promote international trade, cooperation and communication

(f) New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (US 76,366.67)

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(c) Strengthening trade efficiency (Trade Points)

1. The organization shall be concerned with matters of trade and of trade as related to development.

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.

The main task of the group was to examine the pre transactional information exchange within the GTPNet and the link between the pre transactional and the transactional phases of GTPNet.

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Trade efficiency reduced transaction costs, and in areas such as customs, transport, banking and insurance, it could offer invaluable support to trade.

16. UNCTAD should promote an exchange of views among practising experts in business support services, i.e., on how to facilitate more effective SME marketing activities by increasing information about trading opportunities and national trade regulations via trade fairs, trade exhibitions, trade data bases, etc.

Traders will express their needs in accordance with their knowledge of the various aspects of banking and insurance and how they have experienced this trade efficiency sector in the course of their trading.

(e) Development of specialized software, such as a database management system for electronic trading opportunities from the Global Trade Point Network, and dissemination through the network of trade points and the GTP Net Web site enrichment of the GTPNet Web site through user friendly design and the development of interactive features to improve communication with clients

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides a unique multilateral legal framework for trade in services and for negotiations on their further liberalization.

6. The international trading scene was characterized by a process of continuous trade negotiations at the multilateral, regional and subregional levels, as well as by the rapid expansion of trade flows.

A survey carried out in 1996 with the majority of operational Trade Points demonstrated that those Trade Points which use the Internet more actively to promote their services or their clients services also facilitate a higher number of trade transactions per month and offer a broader range of trade facilitation services than other Trade Points.

trade and investment trade and competition policy.

The international community needs easy access to timely trade data.

To bear fruit, efforts should be addressed not only at the trade transaction itself, but to all trade supporting services sectors (e.g. customs, transport, banking and insurance, trade facilitation, business information and telecommunications).

This is why, on the occasion of the United Nations International Symposium on Trade Efficiency (UNISTE, Columbus, October 1994), it was decided to move on to the second stage of the Trade Point programme by launching the Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet), which rapidly emerged as the largest global network for pre transactional trade information.