Section outline

  • Tuesday, 29 May 2007: Enhancing competitiveness through trade and transport facilitation

    Location: Room XXVII, Building E, 1st floor

    For most trade transactions, international transport costs and the costs of cross-border procedures and delays are far higher than Customs duties.
    Access to efficient transport services, as well as fast and transparent cross-border operations, are ever more crucial for countries’ trade competitiveness.

    In this context, the course will first provide an introduction to the logistics of international trade. It will analyse the demand and supply of international transport services and discuss the various relationships between trade, transport costs and effective access to global transport networks.

    Second, the course will provide an introduction to trade facilitation, present specific trade facilitation measures, and discuss trade facilitation issues in the context of the WTO negotiations on Articles V, VIII and X of GATT.

    Delivered by: Trade Logistics Branch/Division for Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency