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Fifty ninth session

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(c) Strengthening trade efficiency (Trade Points)

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND

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

International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO (ITC).

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trade and investment trade and competition policy.

World Trade Organization and International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO

Priority three International trade and trade facilitation

International trade policies and multilateral trade negotiations

RTAs and South South trade cooperation

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.

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.

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

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Trade

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.

Adjustment, support to trade and trade related shocks

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South South and intra regional trade in particular would benefit from multilateral trade facilitation agreements.

The free trade area foresees free trade in manufactured goods and a progressive liberalization of trade in agricultural products.

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.

15. It was his delegation s understanding that the report on the International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO (ITC) (A 51 933) had not been discussed in the Joint UNCTAD WTO Advisory Group on the International Trade Centre, or in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) or the World Trade Organization (WTO).

International Trade Forum Issue 2 2003, International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO (ITC).

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 objectives of the Trade Point were to serve as a facilitation centre for international trade, a source of trade information and a centre for help and advice.

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Regional trade blocs are also helpful in expanding trade.

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

(c) Unfavourable terms of trade, due in particular to commodity trade

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6143 Barter or counter trade

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) continued to nurture the rapid growth of South South trade and commerce.

WTO was the proper venue for negotiations on trade.

(i) United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

Box 1 Trade Policy Review Mechanism of the World Trade Organization

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports