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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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Summary of activities included in this category
The Programme for International Development Cooperation
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Training programmes to provide LDCs with the necessary assistance in order to help their trade officials upgrade their trade-related skills and technical knowledge

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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Meeting international standards: Mozambique
Promoting labour and health standards, Bangladesh

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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• Supporting multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations

Trade promotion capacity building

This category includes both direct support to exporters and the building of institutions in-country which will provide such support. It is different from many of the other categories in its direct relationship to the private sector.

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Summary of activities included in this category
Competitiveness and Innovation Program Mexico-European Union (PROCEI) (2012-2016)
European and Latin American Business Services and Innovation - ELAN Network (January 2017-January 2018)
Enterprise Europe Network– EEN (2011-2018)
Confederation of European Retired Experts (2016-2018)
Low Carbon Business Action in Mexico (2016-2018)
Trade Facilitation Office Canada (TFO) (2016-2017)

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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Triangular Cooperation Project on Trade Facilitation and Competitiveness (AMEXCID - USAID)
Enabling Trade: Unlocking the Potential of Mexico and Vietnam (WEF Report)
National Service of Foreign Trade Information (SNICE)
Activities carried out during 2015
Activities carried out during 2016
Activities carried out during 2017
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Trade facilitation in the ECO region

E-commerce Services & Digital Economy

This category includes capacity building activities directed to development of e-commerce from the perspective of the physical and regulatory factors, for example reducing barriers to trade across distance via electronic marketplaces, development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks. 

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eLAC2019 initiative
OECD Ministerial Meeting on Digital Economy
International events to share Mexican experience
International workshops to enhance Mexico´s capacities

Physical Trade Infrastructure

Like Supply Capacity, this is a category where the boundary between trade support and more general support to production or develop­ment is not clearly defined. Some agencies try to allocate spending on individual projects partially to trade and partially to other purposes; others focus on the principal purpose of a project or a type of activity.

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Summary of activities included in this category
Infrastructure Fund for Mesoamerican and Caribbean Countries (Yucatan Fund)

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

South-South cooperation is the process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges of knowledge, skills, resources and technical know-how, and through regional and interregional collective actions, including partnerships involving Governments, regional organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, for their individual and/or mutual benefit within and across regions.

Triangular Cooperation is a southern-driven partnership between two or more developing countries, supported by a developed country or multilateral organization(s), to implement development cooperation programmes and projects.

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Mesoamerican Development Project

Gender Mainstreaming, Employment and Youth

The category intends to report on activities to support women's economic empowerment, employment and activities targeted at the youth.

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The empowerment of women and youth

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