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Global Advocacy
The global advocacy category covers services that are designed to promote the use of trade as a development tool and to encourage support for developing countries’ efforts to improve their trade capacity building. This includes analysis and dissemination of trade-related information, promoting understanding of the relationship between trade and development, and supporting policies. Some agencies provide information on and support for the interactions between their more specialized interests and trade.
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TRADE POLICY DEVELOPMENT
LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
TRADE RELATED FINANCIAL SERVICES
Legal and Regulatory Framework
Assistance under this category includes helping countries to bring their own regulations into conformity with international rules, more general help to improve their legal institutions, and training officials to deal with such rules. A number of the agencies specialise in particular areas, rather than trying to provide expertise on the legal rules in all sectors. For several, the aim is to balance trade-related obligations with other national (or international) interests.
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Institutional Strengthening of Banco de Cabo Verde - Phase 2
Institutional and Technical Strengthening of Mozambique’s National Institute of Standardization and Quality (INNOQ) - Trilateral Cooperation with Brazil, Germany and Mozambique
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Supply Capacity
In line with the trade focus of this Guide, support activities to develop supply capacity are considered to be those that aim to increase the availability of goods and services for export. There is no easy distinction between this and building more general capacity to produce, and this distinction is becoming less pertinent as borders open and competition in local markets from imports increases. Some agencies do not make this distinction in their projects.
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Competitive Substitution of Imports
Mercosur structural convergence fund (FOCEM)
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Bolivian Productivity and Competitiveness Project (BPC Project)
Growth with Equity in Mindanao-3 (GEM-3) Programme
Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM)
The Competitiveness and Trade Expansion Programme
Trade Accession and Facilitation for Afghanistan
Trade Development for Small and Medium Enterprises (formerly known as Trade and Innovation)
USAID Agribusiness Project
Compliance support infrastructure and services
Assistance in this category is closely related to that under the Legal and Regulatory Framework, but places more emphasis on building the institutions in developing countries to implement such legal frameworks, and less on the details of compliance. It is an area where the specialised agencies again have the main role
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Azerbaijan Competitiveness and Trade (ACT)
AGOA Sanitary and Phytosanitary Capacity Building Program-AGCI
CODEX Outreach Capacity Building Programme
Enforcement Study Tour
Enhance Ability of Exporters to Meet Sanitary and Phytosanitary Requirements (Central America)
9th Interpol Intellectual Property Crime Training Seminar
Maximizing Agricultural Revenue through Knowledge Enterprise Development and Trade
Poverty Reduction by Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprises (PRICE)
Trade Policy Development
Agencies’ assistance to trade policy development is generally provided in four areas: design and implementation of trade policy; specific developing country issues in trade (such as commodity exports and preferences); support in trade negotiations; and assistance in managing the interactions between trade and other policies.
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Market and Trade Information
Market information and trade information services are different in their focus and methods. Market information is about sub-sectors and products, while trade information focuses on the aggregate level, including data on trade flows, policies affecting trade, and trends in these. Market information is usually targeted at traders. Trade information is, broadly speaking, intended to be used by policy-makers.
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Trade Facilitation
This category covers the development, harmonization, and implementation of the rules and procedures which govern how goods cross borders.
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Local Currency Payment System (SML)
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Regional Trade Liberalization and Customs Project - Central Asian Republics
Worldwide Support for Trade Capacity Building (TCBoost)
USAID Partnership for Trade Facilitation
Authorized Economic Operator Handbook
Post-Clearance Audit Handbook
Border Management ICT Tool