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12.06.2017 TFA event: �The WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation: from vision to reality � and to the future�

Video message by DG Azevêdo. This is what he said:

Good morning everyone.

Welcome to the WTO and to this event celebrating the WTO�s Trade Facilitation Agreement.

06.06.2017 From vision to reality: event celebrates success of the Trade Facilitation Agreement
Participants who played a key role in negotiating the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) joined WTO members and others on 2 June to celebrate the Agreement�s entry into force and to discuss the challenges in securing its implementation in the coming years.

01.06.2017 Azevêdo: Food security is of paramount importance to all members
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, on 31 May, opened a Workshop on �Delivering Development in the 11th Ministerial Conference� aimed at looking at the roles of public stockholding and the Special Safeguard Mechanism in achieving food security.

12.05.2017 Trade Facilitation Agreement

Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries

The New WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

In December 2013 WTO Members concluded negotiations on a new Trade Facilitation Agreement (WT/MIN (13)/36) aimed at expediting the movement, release and clearance of goods, including goods in transit, and at improving customs cooperation.

01.05.2017 Minutes of the second Coordinating committee on trade facilitation meeting

Dushanbe # 2 April 5 2017

Chairman: Minister of Economic development and trade N. Hikmatullozoda

27.04.2017 DG Azevêdo and Argentina�s minister Malcorra meet with negotiating group chairs
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo welcomed Susana Malcorra

17.04.2017 Minutes First session of the Coordinating Committee on Trade Facilitation (CCTF)
20 members of the Committee (out of 24) participated in the session. These members are approved by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan,

10.04.2017 MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN
The second meeting of National Trade Facilitation Committee (NTFC)

06.04.2017 DG Azevêdo: Portugal is a nation driven by openness
At a meeting of the Portuguese Council of State in Lisbon on 31 March 2017,

28.11.2016 WTO-UNCTAD launch new guide to trade policy analysis

A new book on trade policy analysis was launched today (15 November) by the WTO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). �An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis: The Structural Gravity Model� outlines one of the most successful tools for the analysis of trade policy and provides practical guidance on how to apply this tool to trade policy making.

11.11.2016 New global trade alert system launched to boost market access for developing countries
UN, WTO and ITC develop new �ePing� system to promote trade

04.11.2016 Iceland ratifies Trade Facilitation Agreement
Iceland has ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), becoming the 96th member of the WTO to do so. WTO ambassador Högni S. Kristjánsson submitted his country�s instrument of acceptance to WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo on 31 October.

18.07.2016 Honduras ratifies Trade Facilitation Agreement

18.07.2016 DG Azevêdo welcomes Liberia as 163rd WTO member

18.07.2016 El Salvador ratifies Trade Facilitation Agreement

08.06.2016 Ministers support call for increased efforts to find possible areas of agreement for MC11

30.05.2016 DG Azevêdo welcomes Kazakhstan�s ratification of WTO trade facilitation deal in Astana

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo is in Astana, Kazakhstan, today (26 May) to meet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev to discuss the country�s recent accession to the WTO and its prospects for further integration into the global economy. DG Azevêdo also met with Prime Minister Karim Massimov and was presented with Kazakhstan�s formal instrument of acceptance of the WTO�s Trade Facilitation Agreement, which will take the total number of ratifications so far to 80.

25.05.2016 report on WTO activities on april-may

25.05.2016 Tajikistan delivers acceptance of protocol amending TRIPS Agreement

11.05.2016 Montenegro and Albania ratify Trade Facilitation

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