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GENERAL PROGRAMS

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD)

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 * UNCTAD's Support to Developing Countries: Preparations for Future
   Multilateral Trade Negotiations

 * The Generalized System of Preferences and Other Trade Laws

 * Commodity Policy, including MICAS

 * Trade Efficiency: The Trade Point Programme

 * Developing Human Resources for Trade, TRAINFORTRADE programme

 * Understanding the links between Trade and Environment

 * Economic Integration of Developing Countries

 

Title of Program

Description of Program

Eligibility

Fee

Contact Information

UNCTAD's Support to Developing Countries: Preparations for Future Multilateral
Trade Negotiations

UNCTAD’s Commercial Diplomacy Course:

The course is designed to meet the need in developing countries for a wider, and
deeper understanding of the issues addressed in international trade
negotiations, at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels. It is aimed at
assisting them to identify and exploit trading opportunities, effectively defend
their trading rights, fully conform to their trade obligations while executing
development policy in the framework of these obligations and define and pursue
their trade and development interests in trade negotiations.

 

 

Manuela Tortora
Coordinator,
Commercial Diplomacy Course
manuela.tortora@unctad.org

Tel. : + 41 22 907 5686
Fax : + 41 22 907 0044

http://www.unctad.org/en/
posagen/index.htm

The Generalized System of Preferences and Other Trade Laws

The objective of this program is to make developing countries aware of the
potential for trade expansion arising from GSP schemes and to increase their
capabilities to make use of these schemes;

Activities:

 * National, regional and interregional seminars on operational aspects of the
   GSP and other trade laws regulating market access conditions in
   preference-giving countries;
 * Advisory services regarding the utilization of GSP schemes, including support
   in setting up GSP focal points/networks
 * Technical support in installing UNCTAD's TRade Analysis and INformation
   System (TRAINS)  at the GSP focal points.

 

 

UNCTAD Technical Cooperation Project on Market Access,
Trade Laws and Preferences

UNCTAD, Palais des Nations
1211 Geneva 10

Tel. : + 41 22 907 4944
Fax : + 41 22 907 0044

E-mail : gsp@unctad.org

http://www.unctad.org/en/
techcop/trad0103.htm

Commodity Policy, including MICAS The objective of this program to improve the
capacity of developing countries to formulate and implement policies for their
commodities and, where relevant, to participate effectively in international
negotiations on commodities; and

To formulate and implement commodity diversification programmes and projects.

Activities:

 * Seminars, workshops and expert group roundtables in low-income commodity
   dependent countries on the development of processing activities, involving
   the participation of the private and the public sectors. This provides a
   forum for: assessing the potential for processing in light of domestic and
   world market conditions; preparing project profiles and initiating
   feasibility studies; identifying investment partners; and arranging for
   follow-up.

Developing countries and economies in transition

 

UNCTAD

Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: + 41 22 907 1234

http://www.unctad.org/en/
techcop/trad0105.htm

Trade Efficiency: The Trade Point Programme

The Trade Efficiency Programme seeks to increase the international awareness and
effective application of information technologies to trade, and to promote the
use of models capable of reducing procedural costs in international trade.

Features of the Program:

 * A trade facilitation centre, where participants in foreign trade transactions
   (e.g. Customs, foreign trade institutes, Chambers  of Commerce, freight
   forwarders, transport companies, banks, insurance companies) are grouped
   together under a single physical or virtual roof to provide all required
   services for trade transactions.
 * A source of trade-related information which provides actual and potential
   traders with data about business and market     opportunities, potential
   clients and suppliers, trade regulations and requirements, etc.
 *  A gateway to global networking. All Trade Points are being or will be
   interconnected in a worldwide electronic network and equipped with efficient
   telecommunications tools to link up with other global networks.

    UNCTAD

Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel : + 41 22 907 1234

E-mail: asycuda@unctad.org

http://www.unctad.org/en/
techcop/trad0108.htm

Developing Human Resources for Trade, TRAINFORTRADE programme TRAINFORTRADE is
an programme designed by UNCTAD in cooperation with ITC to develop human
resources for international trade and related services to allow developing
countries to enhance competitiveness and to take advantage of the new
opportunities for trade. It develops and delivers training packages such as:

HRD workshops:

 * HRD managers,
 * Course Developers,
 * Course leaders;

Commodity trading:

 * Futures and options market,
 * Physical markets;

Trade policies:

 * National trade policies,
 * competition policies,
 * Trade and the Environment;

Trade perspectives:

 * Trade with EU Single Market countries.

In cooperation with ITC:

 * Doing business in the PTA and with export oriented joint-ventures.

Developing countries and economies in transition

  UNCTAD

Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel : + 41 22 907 1234

http://www.unctad.org/en/
techcop/trad0110.htm

Understanding the links between Trade and Environment Objectives of the program:
 * To assist in increasing awareness and understanding of the complex linkages
   between trade, environment and development;
 * To contribute to building institutional capacity in developing countries and
   countries in transition to deal with the trade and environment interface,
   including through providing information and analysis to policy makers and the
   business sector; and
 * To support the effective participation of developing countries in
   deliberations in the relevant international organizations and other fora.

Activities:

 * Policy-oriented studies: a number of thematic studies as well as some 20
   country-specific case studies are being undertaken.
 * Workshops, seminars and training: policy-oriented studies are presented and
   discussed in a number of workshops/seminars on trade and environment.

Developing countries and economies in transition

  UNCTAD

Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel : + 41 22 907 1234

http://www.unctad.org/en/
techcop/sust0101.htm

Economic Integration of Developing Countries Activities:
 * National, subregional and regional seminars on the development of trade
   practices, trade liberalization programmes and national mechanisms for
   monitoring, follow-up and implementation of subregional and regional
   programmes and projects.
 * Technical support, including advisory services, in the elaboration and
   implementation of programmes of trade expansion   among developing countries,
   including the formulation of commercial policy measures at the national,
   subregional, regional and interregional levels.
 * Mobilization of assistance and support for designing and implementing
   intercountry initiatives, interregional activities and metworking of
   integration and cooperation schemes, as well as encouraging enterprises and
   other economic agents such as investors and professional and trade
   associations to participate actively in these initiatives and activities.
 * Support for the Global System of Trade Preferences. The GSTP, which entered
   into force in 1989, provides for the exchange of trade concessions among its
   developing country members through tariff, para-tariff, and non-tariff
   measures.

Developing countries and economies in transition

 

UNCTAD

Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel : + 41 22 907 1234

http://www.unctad.org/en/
techcop/trad0111.htm

 

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